Controls and Tests

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Tests and controls are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tests" instead a noun "Controls".

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Controls and tests are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Controls" instead a noun "Tests".

Coupling: In the last episode of the third series, Sally is convinced she's pregnant, so she, Jane, and Susan take tests (they're controls).

Source: Buffy Speak
This movie has both an AI and two robots (the second robot controls the camera in the tests of the flight system), and none of them goes evil/crazy by the end of the movie.

Source: AI Is A Crapshoot / Film
Note that current studies on animal cognition almost always involve extensive controls to avoid "the Clever Hans effect": for instance, tests are usually set up so that they receive as little cuing as possible (often the animal can't see or hear the examiner while they're figuring out the answer).

Source: Amplified Animal Aptitude

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