Answer:
A. Randomization tends to minimize the effects of uncontrolled variables, such as water temperature, so that such factors are not confounded with the treatment effects.
Explanation:
---Researchers are investigating the effect of pH level in water on the breeding habits of the moon jellyfish. As part of a laboratory experiment, they will randomly assign one of three treatments, low pH, medium pH, or high pH, to the water in the tanks that hold the jellyfish.
Which of the following is the best reason for the random assignment of a treatment level to an experimental unit?
A. Randomization tends to minimize the effects of uncontrolled variables, such as water temperature, so that such factors are not confounded with the treatment effects.
B. Randomization will make up for improper experimental design, data collection, and analysis.
C. Randomization makes the analysis easier since the data can be entered into the computer in any order.
D. Randomization is required by statistical consultants before they will analyze the experiment.
E. Randomization means that the experiment would not need to be replicated---
Randomization is used to ensure that the results of a trial or an experiment are actually because if the treatment or hypothesis we are trying, instead of any other external factor that we can not control, or because it just always happens that way, if all of the jellyfish are affected or not in the same way, then the Ph had little to nothing to do with it, and if only one group of them is affected we can re-try the experiment to see if the difference in the Ph had anything to do with the change.