and what is the difference between the control group and the experimental group?|||say you want to find out if people fall down more when they drink alcohol.
experimental group: you give them booze and ask them to walk
control group: you give them water and ask them to walk
in short: a control group is the group that is not being affected by what you are testing, they serve as a comparison point. in this case, they are used so you can compare how often drunk people fall to how often sober people fall.|||For example, the effectiveness of a drug is being tested. The control group does not recieve the drug. They are the "normal" group. The experimental group does recieve the drug. The experimental group is compared to the control group to determine if the drug has an effect.|||A control group experiences no change, the experimental group experiences change.
In this example:
You ahve three plants to see what affects plant growth the most:
One plant experiences normal amounts of water and light
One gets no water
one gets no light
the normal is the control
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