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A high school student named David Merrell did an experiment to examine if music affects the ability of mice to run a maze. The explanatory variable was exposure to music. He had three treatment groups: one group listened to heavy metal music by the group Anthrax. A second group listened to Mozart. The third group never heard music. This last group is the control group.
The response variable was the average time (in seconds) to complete three runs. Every week the mice ran the maze three times. Merrell recorded each mouse’s average time for the week.
Direct controls of potential confounding variables:
Results:
By the end of the month, the Anthrax group was much slower at running the maze. The Mozart group was much faster. The dotplots below show average run times for the first and last week of the experiment. Each dot represents one mouse. The X-value is the mouses average run time for the week. (Each mouse ran the maze 3 times each week.) The blue line is the mean run time for each treatment group.

If you are curious, here is a video of Merrell explaining his experiment.
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Merrell claims that he randomly assigned mice to treatment groups. Does the data shown in the dotplots above support his claim? Why or why not?
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