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So the groups of four friends, they only had a 50-50 chance of getting the answer right.
So when Katherine Phillips interviewed the groups of four friends, they had a nice time, they also thought they'd done a good job.
Species in those regions are also large, diverse, and tend to congregate in groups or swarms that make them easy to harvest.
Another possibility is that the particles slowly rearrange themselves into lots of small groups, which then flow past each other.
The key to RCTs is that the subjects are randomly assigned to their study groups.
This process attempts to ensure that the only difference between the groups is the one the researchers are attempting to study.
For example, when testing a new headache medication, a large pool of people with headaches would be randomly divided into two groups, one receiving the medication and another receiving a placebo.
With proper randomization, the only significant overall difference between the two groups will be whether or not they received the medication, rather than other differences that could affect results.
In such cases, scientists use an epidemiological study, which simply observes people going about their usual behavior, rather than randomly assigning active participants to control invariable groups.
Precisely because the test subjects are not randomly assigned to their groups.
But even when this has been done, the very nature of epidemiological studies, which examine differences between preexisting groups, rather than deliberately inducing changes within the same individuals, means that a single study can only demonstrate a correlation between a substance and a health outcome, rather than a true cause and effect relationship.
Traditionally, medical science has been about testing treatments on large groups to determine what would help a majority of patients.
This has many theoretical and practical applications, from solving the famous traveling salesman problem, to scheduling computing tasks and optimizing Internet searches, to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control.
But according to the principles of evolution, groups that have a relative advantage tend to grow until that advantage disappears.
She started with just one Roots & Shoots group and now she has 4,000 groups around the world.
After much pressure from human rights groups, the dictator reluctantly agrees to let you visit the island and speak to the prisoners under the following conditions: you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information.
Or, if you're randomly picking a five-player basketball team out of a group of twelve friends, how many possible groups of five are there?
Instead, it is recorded as a magnetic pattern formed by groups of those tiny grains.
So how can Hospital A have a better overall survival rate if Hospital B has better survival rates for patients in each of the two groups?
Here, the age groups are the lurking variable, and are vital to correctly interpret the data.
Sending groups of four down just two of the paths won't work because if one group came back split two versus two, you'd have to guess who to trust.
If there's only one group arguing, both others must be telling the truth, and if there are two conflicts, then the possessed students are in separate groups and you can safely trust the majority in both trios since at least two people in each will be truthful.
Oddly enough, those questions have the same general answer: emergence, or the spontaneous creation of sophisticated behaviors and functions from large groups of simple elements.
Like many animals, fish stick together in groups, but that's not just because they enjoy each other's company.
In one example, students were split into two groups.
It affects virtually all ages, genders, and socioeconomic groups in both developed and developing countries.
Furthermore, he thought that society should be divided into three groups: producers, the military, and the rulers, and that a great noble lie should convince everyone to follow this structure.
Both groups claim to base their ideology on their holy book.
In one study, 144 basketball players were divided into two groups.
When they were tested at the end of the two week experiment, the intermediate and experienced players in both groups had improved by nearly the same amount.
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