It is important to assess the similarity of the experimental and control groups before any manipulation of the independent variable in a nonequivalent control-group design because
A) if the groups are significantly different, direction of causality cannot be determined.
B) the more similar the groups are, the greater control we have.
C) as the similarity between groups at the beginning of the study increases, the design approaches experimental designs.
D) Both B and C
Answer: D
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