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In experimental design a treatment is a condition, level, or manipulation deliberately applied to the units of an experiment, and it is compared against a control that receives none. Fisher's 1935 The Design of Experiments made this usage standard, drawing on agricultural trials where a fertiliser or a variety applied to a plot was the treatment whose effect was to be estimated. Here the word carries no promise of benefit: a placebo, a dose of nothing, or a teaching method can all be treatments, so the meaning is broader and more abstract than a therapy meant to cure, a plant that cleans water, or a written film summary.[1]
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