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Experimental and Control Groups

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The experimental group receives the manipulation; the control group is treated identically except for the manipulation.

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Both groups take the same test in the same room; only the assigned sleep duration differs between them.

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A control group is not a group that gets nothing. It is a group that gets everything except the one thing under test.