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Amanda wants to study the effect of diet on the activity level of dogs. Which population will allow for an appropriatelyrandomized experiment?
Population #1: Dogs that live in one neighborhood and eat the same type of food.
Population: #2: Dogs from various breeds that are randomly assigned different diets.
Population:#3: Dogs that belong to a single breeder and follow a strict feeding schedule.
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Population #1
Population #2
Population #3
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Population #2.
Reason: It explicitly includes dogs from various breeds and specifies that they are randomly assigned different diets, which is what you need for a properly randomized experiment (random assignment to treatments and broader generalizability). The other populations are homogeneous or already fixed to a feeding schedule and so do not facilitate a randomized treatment assignment or generalizable results.
Reason: It explicitly includes dogs from various breeds and specifies that they are randomly assigned different diets, which is what you need for a properly randomized experiment (random assignment to treatments and broader generalizability). The other populations are homogeneous or already fixed to a feeding schedule and so do not facilitate a randomized treatment assignment or generalizable results.
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