control experiment
noun
plural control experiments
: an experiment in which all variable factors have been kept constant and which is used as a standard of comparison to the experimental component in a controlled experiment
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The lab uses the microbes to study what happens to DNA during cell division, but even in the control experiments, none of the yeast survived.
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Bymolly Herring, science.org, 31 July 2024
In a control experiment using OpenAI’s GPT-2 text generator first released in 2019 to teach GPT-4, the more recent system became less capable and similar to the inferior system.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
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Bymolly Herring, science.org, 31 July 2024
In a control experiment using OpenAI’s GPT-2 text generator first released in 2019 to teach GPT-4, the more recent system became less capable and similar to the inferior system.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
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“Control experiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control%20experiment. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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