The participants who are in the experimental condition are those who receive the treatment or intervention of interest.
After getting together a group of participants, yourandomly assignthem to one of three groups.
In this experiment, the group of participants listening to no music while working out is the control group.
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They serve as a baseline with which to compare the performance of the other two groups.
The other two groups in the experiment are the experimental groups.
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