control experiment

a follow-up experiment designed to check that the findings of an initial study were in fact caused by the factor under investigation and not by some other variable. For example, consider a case in which initial research appeared to demonstrate the beneficial effect of a new treatment for depression. To confirm these results a control experiment might be devised in which a similar group of individuals was tracked to find the number of individuals whose depression was alleviated without use of the treatment.

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May 10th 2024

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n. a congenital disorder characterized by the merging of the two eye orbits into a single cavity that contains one eye. Cyclopia is associated with trisomy 13.