controlled experiment

collocation in English

meaningsofcontrolledandexperiment

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controlled
adjective
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/kənˈtrəʊld/us
/kənˈtroʊld/
involving careful, intentional actions that limit risk ...
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experiment
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/us
/ɪkˈsper.ə.mənt/
a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or ...
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(Definition ofcontrolledandexperimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If thecontrolledexperimentdisproves the hypothesis, the scientist must be prepared to abandon it.
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It was acontrolledexperiment.
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Primarily, there is just too much going on for the reform process to be regarded as acontrolledexperiment.
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There you have a properlycontrolledexperiment.
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We should have conducted acontrolledexperiment.
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Is this acontrolledexperimentin comparative law, one wonders?
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If the policy ofcontrolledexperimentsucceeds, well and good.
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She has presented us with acontrolledexperiment.
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We suggested that acontrolledexperimentwould be helpful.
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If we would like to test the impact of different adaptation techniques in a given interface, for example, acontrolledexperimentcan produce useful results.
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While experimentation is growing in the field of economics and hopefully will continue to grow, the macroeconomy itself is not acontrolledexperiment.
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Thecontrolledexperimentepitomizes domination: the ideal experiment is supposed to decipher natural principles and accordingly set conditions for a narrow range of results, easily analyzable.
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A second method of identifying the causal nature of family risk factors is to perform acontrolledexperiment, with randomized assignment of participants to intervention and control conditions.
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For him, scientific knowledge required a direct experience of natural substances, even though he did not draw a sharp distinction between thecontrolledexperimentand the experiential datum.
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The first problem is just raw complexity: there are so many economic agents, governed by so many forces, and there is little possibility forcontrolledexperiment.
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As the scientists put it, it will not be acontrolledexperiment.
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For acontrolledexperiment, you require a limited environment and limited effects.
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What a good idea it would be to set up acontrolledexperimentin this case.
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It might be right to consider acontrolledexperimentin relation to vandalism in schools.
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This is acontrolledexperimentthat should be of value to us all.
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I doubt whether it is possible to carry out acontrolledexperimentto monitor the precise effects of restart.
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The possibility of acontrolledexperimentfor dealing with people who cause vandalism in schools was mentioned.
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What was once a pilot scheme and a research project—a properlycontrolledexperiment—has become permanent.
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In this age the whole procedure of science in this country is by way ofcontrolledexperiment.
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We observed such a relationship first in an experiment that used only naturally produced utterances and confirmed it in acontrolledexperimentin which speaking rates were manipulated digitally.
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