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:There is no control group in the first panel. It's a controlled (or monitored) trial, with three different outcomes. The control group mentioned by Megan is all mankind except Cueball.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 07:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 
:There is no control group in the first panel. It's a controlled (or monitored) trial, with three different outcomes. The control group mentioned by Megan is all mankind except Cueball.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 07:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 
::I read that as sometimes Cueball doesn't do any of the three things while walking, and yet still walks into things. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.58|141.101.98.58]] 15:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 
::I read that as sometimes Cueball doesn't do any of the three things while walking, and yet still walks into things. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.58|141.101.98.58]] 15:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
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:The "control group" is a baseline for comparison, so it's a sample of trials which have "average" values of the experiment's variables.  Since the trials are describing whether Cueball is more likely to walk into something when he's looking at one of three things, the control group would be a random sample of all of Cueball's walking.  Megan's comment about the control group is a way of saying that if you consider all of Cueball's walking, whether he's looking at one of those three things or not, his "rate" of walking into things is surprisingly high.--[[User:CapnCurry|CapnCurry]] ([[User talk:CapnCurry|talk]]) 22:34, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 
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Perhaps Randall meant "discovering new things" by "walking into things". I walk into more things when I don't have a phone with me.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.150.228|162.158.150.228]] 19:48, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 
Perhaps Randall meant "discovering new things" by "walking into things". I walk into more things when I don't have a phone with me.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.150.228|162.158.150.228]] 19:48, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
  

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