Ch. 1 Human Bio

Study of living things and its processes

In scientific experiments, a group of subjects that undergoes all the steps in the experiment except the one being tested. The control group is used to evaluate all possible factors that might influence the experiment other than the experimental treatment. Compare experimental group

Statistics is the mathematics of organizing and interpreting numerical information.

A procedure designed to test a working hypothesis. In a controlled experiment, all conditions of the environment are controlled except the specific factor dictated by the working hypothesis.

In a controlled experiment, the group of subjects that receives the experimental treatment. Compare control group.