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balanced design
balanced design A balanced design is a study setup in which comparison conditions are arranged so that potentially important features are evenly controlled across them.
A balanced design is a study setup in which comparison conditions are arranged so that potentially important features are evenly controlled across them. In this source, it means the sentence conditions were matched on factors such as the target word type and the immediately preceding context, so differences in responses could be attributed more confidently to the anomalies being tested.