That way you have a randomly selected control and treatment group, just like in a laboratory experiment.

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Before personal computers, corporate local area networks, and a global digital telephone network, the Internet was just a laboratory experiment.

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You talked about Viking being the most complex laboratory experiment ever conducted.

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But a simple laboratory experiment using what are, after all, ultimately harmless words, is not the same as a case of child abuse or the horrors of war.

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The institute collaborated with Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory for the experiment at CERN.

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Strangely, it's hard to tell whether Hawaii is the best or worst laboratory in the nation for this unusual political experiment.

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The experiment on cloud formation also seems likely to undermine the particle physics laboratory's reputation for pursuing only blue skies research.

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Dr Dror's and Dr Hampikian's experiment presented data from a real case to 17 DNA examiners working in an accredited government laboratory in North America.

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He said that in addition, rats kept in ordinary laboratory cages before being put into their "enhanced" environment might be considered understimulated prior to the experiment - and therefore not necessarily ideal for comparison with humans.

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