One way of providing some control in a causal-comparative research design is to:

A. obtain measurements on an additional dependent variable.
B. do a pilot study before carrying out the main research.
C. list all of the subjects from the population under study and randomly assign them to experimental and control groups.
D. match the subjects from comparison groups on extraneous variables.


Answer: D

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