To ensure that all your participants have an equal opportunity to be in either experimental group (one receives a drug,the other group receives a placebo),you decide to toss a coin to determine who gets placed in which group.You have engaged in _______.
A)selective participation
B)random sampling
C)random assignment
D)random participation
E)matching

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Random assignment is the process of assigning participants to experimental groups in a way that every individual has an equal chance of being placed in either group. By randomly assigning participants, bias and confounding variables can be minimized, and the results can be more confidently attributed to the intervention being tested.

To Ensure That All Your Participants Have an Equal Opportunity