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However, a major limitation is that this method can only be used when it is practical and ethical for the researcher to manipulate the antecedent conditions.
A psychologist for instance might want to know if a parent's method of disciplining their children has an effect on how their children behave. It would be neither practical nor ethical to make parents discipline their children in a certain way just to see if that affects their child's behavior.
A second limitation to this method is that experimental studies are usually done in the highly controlled setting of the laboratory. These conditions are artificial and may not reflect what really happens in the less controlled and infinitely more complex real world.
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