In this type of research design, participants are randomly assigned to one of two groups, the experimental group or the control group.This type of design is __________.

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Randomly assigning participants to groups is a key feature of experimental designs, where the manipulation of an independent variable can be used to test causal relationships between variables. Correlational designs do not involve manipulation of variables, observational designs typically do not involve random assignment to groups, and reliability is a characteristic of measurement tools rather than research designs.

In This Type of Research Design, Participants Are Randomly Assigned