Question

Researchers at IBM think that employees who get to chose their own working hours will be more satisfied than those who do not. To test this idea, IBM employees at the Dallas facility are told that they can chose their own hours. Six months later, the satisfaction level of employees in the Dallas facility is compared to employees in the Knoxville facility. The employees in the Knoxville facility are considered the:

Answer 1

Control Group

Step-by-step explanation:

In an experiment or research which does not receive treatment from the researchers, the control group is defined as the group and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other evaluated subjects perform.

The analysis was designed to reduce the impact of non-independent variables.