Subjects are said to be assigned randomly when:

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they each have an equal chance of being assigned to either the experimental or control group

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they are assigned to experimental and control group from a sample which is representative of the larger population

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they are assigned to experimental and control group so that the group differ on some critical variable before the experiment begins

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neither the experimenter nor the subject knows whether the subject is in the experimental or control group

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