Explain how quasi, natural and field experiments differ from each other and from true experiments.
What will be an ideal response?
May vary. Quasi experiments are not true experiments because they do not have
random sampling. Natural and field experiments are a subset of quasi experiments.
Natural experiments differ from both true experiments and field experiments in that they do not have random sampling. Field experiments do have random sampling, but are not conducted in a lab-like, controlled setting such as true experiments.
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