Alphabetical

positive control

[noun]

In science, a positive control refers to a system that is exposed to a treatment with a known effect. Thus, the positive control helps to establish that a response will occur, or provides a measure of the response of a variable to a known treatment. For more information, see our module Experimentation in Scientific Research.


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