Card 64 / 68: The purpose of assigning participants at random to experience the different conditions (or levels) of the independent variable in an experiment is to:
A) ensure that the participants are representative of the population from which they were sampled.
B) distribute extraneous factors (variables) as evenly as possible among the levels/conditions.
C) increase external validity.
D) eliminate the need for any type of control group.

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