Lucille is testing a new treatment for anxiety disorders. She has recruited participants, and assigns the first 50 recruits to the treatment condition and the second 50 to the placebo condition. Using this procedure to assign participants to conditions suggests Lucille does not understand the importance of ____ in experimental research.

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Randomization is important in experimental research because it helps to ensure that the groups being compared are similar in all other respects, except for the independent variable. This helps to rule out the possibility that any differences between the groups are due to factors other than the independent variable.

Lucille Is Testing a New Treatment for Anxiety Disorders