Dr. Abadia is studying the effects of being "trolled" on subsequent replies to posts. A randomly selected half of his subjects are trolled by someone posing as a member of the online group and the other half are not. The group that gets trolled is called the _____ group.
A) control
B) experimental
C) participant
D) concept

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The group that is subjected to the trolling is the group that is being experimented on and is exposed to the independent variable. Therefore, they are the experimental group. The other half of the subjects are not subjected to trolling and are used as a comparison to the experimental group, so they are the control group. Choice A (participant) and choice D (concept) are not accurate labels for the group being trolled in this study.

Dr Abadia Is Studying the Effects of Being "Trolled" on Subsequent