A researcher has one group of children go trick-or-treating wearing masks and a second group of children go trick-or-treating without masks.The researcher finds that the children who wore masks took more candy than the children who did not wearmasks.What was the control group in this study?

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The control group is the standard against which the experimental group is compared. In this study, the control group is the group of children who did not wear masks, as they represent the standard or typical behavior of children trick-or-treating.

A Researcher Has One Group of Children Go Trick-Or-Treating Wearing