When you perform an experiment, usually you are adjusting one variable.
This variable uses a control sample. The control group is the group you do
nothing to.

Another example of this is the bumper sticker I saw at the University: DO
NOT WASH. SCIENTIFIC DIRT EXPERIMENT.

Does it make more sense yet?

"The YARNWRIGHT" wrote in message
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: "Wooly" asked in message:
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: On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 01:17:17 GMT, "Mystified One"
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: True. But I tend to turn down lotions passed around in gatherings
because
: I'm part of the "control group".
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: Huh?
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: And I second the 'huh?'!!
: Noreen
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