How do experimental and control group different explain with the help of an example?
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Explanation:
You usually store your microwave popcorn in the kitchen cabinet, but you read an article that recommends storing it the refrigerator. You want to find out if microwave popcorn actually pops better if it is stored in the refrigerator. You have two bags of popcorn, so you keep one in the cabinet and place the other in the refrigerator. The next day, you pop each bag of popcorn for the same amount of time in the microwave. You measure the amount of popcorn that popped in each bag to see which bag produced more.
You just created an experiment to test whether storing the popcorn in the refrigerator makes it pop better. There must be at least two groups in any valid experiment: the experimental and the control group. In this example, your experimental group is the bag of popcorn you placed in the refrigerator. An experimental group is the group that receives the variable being tested in an experiment. The control group is the group in an experiment that does not receive the variable you are testing. For your experiment, the bag of popcorn that remained stored in the cabinet is the control group. The only difference in the two groups is where the popcorn is stored. This means that storing the popcorn in the refrigerator is the variable, the condition that is allowed to change.