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control experiment

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables
con-trol -ex-per-i-ment
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A parallel experiment designed to replicate the main experiment in every way, except in respect of the one variable that is being tested, so as isolate the effect of that variable; for example, an experiment in which subjects are given a placebo instead of an active drug, intended to check that any observed benefits of the drug derive from the drug itself and not from other factors involved in its administration.

Inflected Forms

control experiments (plural)

Questions

What does control experiment mean?
A parallel experiment designed to replicate the main experiment in every way, except in respect of the one variable that is being tested, so as isolate the effect of that variable; for example, an experiment in which subjects are given a placebo instead of an active drug, intended to check that any observed benefits of the drug derive from the drug itself and not from other factors involved in its administration.

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