Experiments TIG Week: Melinda Davis on Research Designs and the Control Group Problem

I am Melinda Davis, a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona in Psychology, coordinate the Program Evaluation and Research Methods minor, and serve as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences.  In an ideal world, evaluation studies compare two groups that differ only on the treatment assignment.  Unfortunately, …

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