Which of the following statements about assigning participants to conditions of a between-subjects experiment is/are TRUE?
A) Simple random assignment to condition controls the effects of participant characteristics by balancing them across groups.
B) Simple random assignment of participants to conditions guarantees that the members of the experimental and control group will be equivalent.
C) Assigning participants alternately to the experimental and control conditions as they come to the laboratory is equivalent to simple random assignment to conditions.
D) both a and b.

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Simple random assignment helps to control for participant characteristics by distributing them evenly across groups, though it does not guarantee equivalence of groups.

Which of the Following Statements About Assigning Participants to Conditions