Dr. Perry can increase the chances that participants' characteristics will be equally distributed across the treatment groups by
A) carefully assigning the participants to the treatment groups according to their medical histories.
B) adding confounding variables to the experiment.
C) randomly assigning the participants to the treatment groups.
D) manipulating the dependent variable when exposing the participants to treatment conditions.
C
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