So you can see if the thing your testing really had an effect. For instance, if you just took ten mice and gave them ecstasy, yes, they might do soe,thing interesting, kr they might not, but whatever happens, you have no way of knowing if that is different from a normal mouses behavior. You need a group that is under conditons that are as close as possible to the treatment group(s), except for the variable you are tesing, so the. You know any difference between the groups is a result of the variable. Of course, to be sure you should use statistical analysis to see if the differences are statistically significant. For instance, if you were testing types of ferilizer, and half of the plants in your test group rew a foot tall, while the rest grew around six incues, even if all the plants in the control group grew shorter than all the plants in your treatment group(s), you couldnt comclude that fertilizer had an effect on plant height, since there was such a discrepancy between the olants in your comtrol group. What it come down to is this: you want the differences between groups to be greater than the differences between samples with in your groups.
Research studies are usually trying to discover what difference, if any, a given change has on the subjects of the study. Since nothing is done to the control group they provide an unchanged group to compare the changed group with.
The control group gives you something to compare the results to.
The control group stays the same throughout the entire experiment.
Brookson Research is a company that specializes in focus group research. A focus group is a select group of people that have certain traits in common. Focus group research refers to the monitoring of these traits over a period of time.
lifted resarch group but i dont know what they research
The control group in an experiment is the group that nothing is done to. The reason why there is a control group in experiments is to compare it with the group that has been tested.
The control group gives you something to compare the results to.
The defintion of a control group in an experiment is a standard for comparison. So then the purpose of the whole control group during an expirenment is to have something to compare your data to.
Survey research
pacemaker cells
The null hypothesis is the default hypothesis. It is the hypothesis that there is no difference between the control group and the treatment group. The research hypothesis proposes that there is a significant difference between the control group and the treatment group.
Experiments typically use control groups. One group of people are manipulated and measured, while the control group just stays as they are. The control group is measured against the manipulated group to see what changes.
The purpose of a control group is to show what would happen under normal conditions. It serves as a comparison to the results you receive from the manipulation of the independent variable on the dependent variable. If a control group is present in an experiment, one can be more certain that the independent variable is really responsible for the observations.
The control group stays the same throughout the entire experiment.
Control group
experimental, even though it's not an experimental research
Double blind study
He needed a control group.