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In Psychology and Sociology, a Social Experiment is a category of Human Research which test a human’s reaction to certain situations or event. This is typically done by having two different groups of people and have one participate in an event/program and the other react to the event/program. Over a period of hours, days, months or years, the two differing groups are monitored to see the effects and differences as a result of the experiment. Social experiments has also been used by companies and people in order to collect data and research as a result of asking their consumers questions about a particular topic
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