Note: If more than $13,000 of debt is canceled in one year, the gift giver has to file a gift tax return (although they almost certainly will not owe a tax). That should not affect you as the recipient. Example: Roxy borrowed $6,000 from her dad while she was unemployed. She wrote up a promissory note for the debt.
Control Group and Experimental Group. True experiments must have a control group, which is a group of research participants that resemble the experimental group but do not receive the experimental treatment. The control group provides a reliable baseline data to which you can compare the experimental results.
Non-Experimental Methods (Descriptive Method) -do not involve as much manipulation, assignment, or control as a true experiment. -hypothesis testing is more flexible. -Data gathered can be used to formulate theories or hypotheses that can be more rigorously tested. Types of Descriptive Studies.