You conduct a study on a group of individuals to examine the role of exercise in alleviating depression. You assign the first 50 people who are motivated to sign up to the experimental group, and the second group of 50 people, who sign up much later, to the control group. After one month, you find that the people in the experimental group (who exercised three times a week on average) are significantly less depressed than the people in the control group (who exercised once a week on average). Although you may be tempted to conclude that exercise helps stave off depression, you cannot because of the lack of in your study.

random assignment

Explanation:

Random assignment, also known as random placement is a technique used in experiment or research study in assigning human or animal subject to the two groups usually in a experiment; the control group and the treatment group. This is usually done using any randomization technique such as flipping a coin or via generating random numbers. In the scenario given, this is missing, as the researcher simply used the first people who are motivated as the treatment group, which has a tendency to impact on the results of the study.

it is a part of john locke's natural rights popular during the age of enlightenment that people had inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. this was reflected by thomas jefferson in his declaration of independence as rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

another line in the declaration of independence is that people have certain rights just because they are human. humans are capable of obeying the three natural rights john locke mentioned making them governable by these laws and therefore entitled to these rights as well.