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control group

noun/kənˈtrəʊl ɡruːp/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The set of users who receive the existing experience and serve as a baseline against which a change is compared.

The control group kept the old onboarding while the treatment saw the redesigned flow.

Similar: holdout

Topic: Data & analytics in Business English

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