thank you. Consider an experiment to investigate the efectiveness of different insecticides incontrolling pests and their impact on the productivity of tomato plants. What is the bestreason for randomly assigning treatsments (sprying or not spraying) to the farms?8.Random assignment allows researchers to generalize conclusions about theeffectiveness of the insecticides to all farms.Random assignment eliminates chance variation in the responses.Random assignment will tend to balance out all other variables, such as soil fertility.so that they are not confounded with the treatment effects.Random assignment eliminates the effects of other variables, like soil fertility.

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Consider an experiment to investigate the efectiveness of different insecticides in controlling pests and their impact on the productivity of tomato plants. What is the best reason for randomly assigning treatsments (sprying or not spraying) to the farms?

Consider an experiment to investigate the efectiveness of different insecticides in controlling pests and their impact on the productivity of tomato plants. What is the best reason for randomly assigning treatsments (sprying or not spraying) to the farms?

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Consider an experiment to investigate the efectiveness of different insecticides in
controlling pests and their impact on the productivity of tomato plants. What is the best
reason for randomly assigning treatsments (sprying or not spraying) to the farms?
8.
Random assignment allows researchers to generalize conclusions about the
effectiveness of the insecticides to all farms.
Random assignment eliminates chance variation in the responses.
Random assignment will tend to balance out all other variables, such as soil fertility.
so that they are not confounded with the treatment effects.
Random assignment eliminates the effects of other variables, like soil fertility.

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