One of the advantages of experiments over other research designs is that experiments:
A)reduce the likelihood of experimenter effects occurring.
B)offer researchers access to large samples of people.
C)offer researchers the most advantageous position from which to infer causal relationships between variables.
D)give researchers access to people, such as the deceased, who are inaccessible to other forms of research.

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Experiments allow researchers to manipulate one variable to see its effect on another, thereby providing a strong basis for inferring causality. This control over variables and the ability to establish cause and effect relationships is a key advantage of experimental research over other designs, which may be more observational and less able to definitively establish causality.

One of the Advantages of Experiments Over Other Research Designs