control group
(in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects closely resembling the treatment group in many demographic variables but not receiving the active medication or factor under study and thereby serving as a comparison group when treatment results are evaluated.
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The group with cold toes and high levels of recreational cold exposure had roughly the same ability to detect temperature changes as the control group, and their blood vessels dilated to a similar degree.
How Your Body Does (and Doesn't) Adapt to Cold | Alex Hutchinson | February 10, 2021 | Outside OnlineOnce again, the control group has plenty of people with seemingly better endurance genes than the endurance Olympians.
In the original study, the plyometric group improved their running economy by an average of seven percent, the dynamic weight training group improved by four percent, and a control group that didn’t do either saw no change in their running economy.
When to Stop Strength Training Before a Big Race | Alex Hutchinson | January 13, 2021 | Outside OnlineIn a control group where both mice partners experienced inflammation, the animals’ sensitivity didn’t change after their time together.
Mice may ‘catch’ each other’s pain — and pain relief | Carolyn Wilke | January 12, 2021 | Science NewsThat said, most of the studies exploring this connection don’t include a control group, or a baseline for comparison.
Can CBD help you chill? Here’s what we know so far. | Purbita Saha | January 4, 2021 | Popular-Science
A control group—a population of gorillas unaffected by Ebola, separated by a river and 20 kilometers—was also observed.
The control group proved able to respond two to two and a half times faster than usual and with poor aim.
Why Tourette’s May Be Tim Howard’s Secret Weapon on the Field | Michael Daly | July 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe researchers examined stories in 469 local papers following suicides in both the clustered and the control group.
In the Oregon study, 5.1 percent of the people in the control group had elevated GH levels.
No, Really, It's Possible That Health Insurance May Not Make Us Healthier | Megan McArdle | May 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor one thing, you'd probably have trouble getting people to stay in the control group once you put them there.
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any Healthier | Megan McArdle | May 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is no control group, and consequently, no way of knowing whether the improvement was due to the removal of the defect.
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils | Margaret Cobb RogersAs a control group, there were chosen 45 boys who had had no operation, and who lived and worked under the same conditions.
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils | Margaret Cobb RogersThe average of the boys in the control group was 7421 and for the first group after operation 7406.
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils | Margaret Cobb RogersAll members of this group were examined,—to the number of fifty-six, and from them the control group was finally selected.
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils | Margaret Cobb RogersThe average improvement of the test group in excess of the control group is, then, 183 per cent.
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils | Margaret Cobb Rogers
British Dictionary definitions for control group
any group used as a control in a statistical experiment, esp a group of patients who receive either a placebo or a standard drug during an investigation of the effects of another drug on other patients
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