A physician wants to test the effectiveness of a new allergy medication.The physician consults a researcher who regularly conducts clinical trials.The physician tells the researcher that she has a backlog of 100 patients she is treating effectively with the prevailing medication but who could potentially benefit even more from the new medication.The researcher recommends that the physician do a true experiment because of the availability of a(n)
A)excess-demand control group.
B)quasi-treatment control group.
C)waiting-list control group.
D)convenience control group.

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The researcher recommends a waiting-list control group, which is a type of true experiment where participants on the waitlist serve as the control group until they receive the new medication. This allows for a comparison between the effectiveness of the prevailing medication and the new medication, which is the goal of the study. Excess-demand, quasi-treatment, and convenience control groups are not relevant to this particular scenario.

A Physician Wants to Test the Effectiveness of a New