What are two types of control treatments?
Applying a standard treatment or applying no treatment to provide a comparison for treated groups.
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Can you think of an example of how randomization can protect against bias?
If you wanted to test the effects of a certain fertilizer on soybean growth, you would want to randomize the experiment plots so that all the controls didn't receive more sun/water (or anything else) than the treated plants.
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Does increasing the number of replications increase the number of treatments or the number of experimental units?
The number of experimental units
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