Professor Durgin wants to ensure that she has roughly a 1:3 male-to-female ratio in all four of her experimental groups. It appears as though Professor Durgin is making use of __________ in attempting to equate her groups

a. holding variables constant
b. balancing
c. factor analysis
d. matching


b

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