If you have taken a course on research methods you probably learned that the gold standard (ideal) design for outcome studies on the effectiveness of interventions involves randomly assigning clients to treatment versus control groups to control for threats to internal validity like history, passage of time, selectivity bias, and regression to the mean. It’s good that you learned that because such designs are the best way to determine whether a tested intervention appears to be the real cause of any observed outcomes.
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