Randomly assigning participants to treatment groups can help control individual differences in participants before treatment is administered. This is MOST related to which criterion or criteria for showing causation?

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The criterion for showing causation that is best related to randomly assigning participants to treatment groups is the elimination of plausible alternative explanations. Random assignment helps control individual differences between participants, which could potentially account for group differences in outcomes. By eliminating these alternative explanations, we can have more confidence that the treatment caused any observed effects. Time order and covariation are also important criteria for causation, but they are not directly related to randomly assigning participants to treatment groups.

Randomly Assigning Participants to Treatment Groups Can Help Control Individual