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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of ‘controls’
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The question is: how much will the investor hand over? The results were remarkable. Investors who receive a squirt of oxytocin up their noses before the experiment begins hand over 17 percent more money than those who receive a squirt of inert saline solution up their noses, and the median transfer is ten units rather than eight. The oxytocin investors are more than twice as likely to hand over the full twelve units as the controls. Yet oxytocin has no such effect on the back transfers offered by the trustees, who are just as generous without oxytocin as with.
In this paragraph, I can’t figure out what ‘controls’ means.
Can you tell me what it refers to?
Thank you in advance.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
The question is: how much will the investor hand over? The results were remarkable. Investors who receive a squirt of oxytocin up their noses before the experiment begins hand over 17 percent more money than those who receive a squirt of inert saline solution up their noses, and the median transfer is ten units rather than eight. The oxytocin investors are more than twice as likely to hand over the full twelve units as the controls. Yet oxytocin has no such effect on the back transfers offered by the trustees, who are just as generous without oxytocin as with.
In this paragraph, I can’t figure out what ‘controls’ means.
Can you tell me what it refers to?
Thank you in advance.
Top answer
Can you tell me what it refers to? The controls are the investors who received only the saline solution, the placebo. In research, control subjects or control procedures permit comparison with experimental results.
- Can you tell me what it refers to?
- The controls are the investors who received only the saline solution, the placebo.
- In research, control subjects or control procedures permit comparison with experimental results.
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Stenka25 I can’t figure out what ‘controls’ means.Can you tell me what it refers to?The controls are the investors who received only the saline solution, the placebo. In research, control subjects or control procedures permit comparison with experimental results.
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