experimental group
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of experimental group
First recorded in 1845–50
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Animals in the experimental group had about 20 times as much copper in their feces as animals in the control group, and after they stopped receiving copper their levels of the metal returned to baseline.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024
By the end of the fourth grade, the IQs of kids in the experimental group had dropped way down, and were no higher than the comparison group.
From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023
Her big break came in 1964, when the director Mr. Brook brought her into an experimental group he was assembling for the recently formed Royal Shakespeare Company.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023
The experimental group of 87 mentors instead completed a different 2-hour module focused on enhancing the mentor’s cultural diversity awareness.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2023
He was one of the most brilliant geneticists of Earth, and came to Mars with an experimental group that was to try to develop a human type that could live more comfortably under Martian conditions.
From Rebels of the Red Planet by Fontenay, Charles Louis
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