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Control group

The group in a test that doesn't get the thing being tested, to show what would have happened anyway. "It got better" isn't enough: compared with what?

Depth 1 · Foundation

You can ask "compared with what?" and say what a control group is for.

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  1. 1

    Foundation

    You can ask "compared with what?" and say what a control group is for.

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    Fair testA control group is the "everything kept the same" part of a fair test.

Your path here

What's still between you and Control group, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.

  1. 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  2. 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  3. 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  4. 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  5. 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  6. 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  7. 7ClaimDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  8. 8ArgumentDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  9. 9Conditional statementsDepth 1 · Foundation · Logic
  10. 10PredictionDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  11. 11EvidenceDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  12. 12Testing against the worldDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  13. 13Fair testDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  14. 14Control groupDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science

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