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Scientific control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scientific controls are a vital part of the scientific method, since they can eliminate or minimize unintended influences such as researcher bias, environmental changes and biological variation. Cont...
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Experimental controls are used in scientific experiments to prevent factors other than those being studied from affecting the outcome. Controls are needed to eliminate alternate explanations of experimental results. ... Instead, the researcher can use an experimental control, separating the rats into two groups:
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In other cases, an experimental control is used to prevent the effects of one variable from being drowned out by the known, greater effects of other variables. For example, suppose a program that gives out free books to children in subway stations wants to measure the effect of the program on standardized test scores.
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Experimental control of pancreatic development and maintenance. ... These results demonstrate the feasibility of controlling the formation of an organ during embryogenesis in utero and the maintenance of the mature organ through the experimental manipulation of a key developmental regulator...
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The biological control of the snail hosts of the trematodes that cause human schistosomiasis appears to be a promising method for achieving sustainable reductions in the transmission of the parasites.
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Clark, S. & Tunnicliff, J. L. (2001). Selecting lineup foils in eyewitness identification experiments: Experimental control and real world simulation. Law and Human Behavior, 25, 199-216.
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