MEANING
1. Not involving an experiment or deliberate testing under experimental conditions.
2. Using a design without controlled manipulation, random assignment, or both, rather than a fully randomized experiment.
Use it for
describing evidence not produced by an experiment; distinguishing observation or interpretation from experimental testing; stating what kind of testing has not been conductedDistinguishes absence of experimental testing from disciplinary classifications that lack manipulation, random assignment, or both. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- nonexperimental evidence
- a nonexperimental approach
- nonexperimental methods
On the page
The essay draws on nonexperimental evidence from historical records and comparative cases.
A nonexperimental approach can address questions that cannot ethically be investigated through deliberate intervention.
This nonexperimental design measures naturally occurring variation rather than assigning participants randomly to treatments.
The textbook uses nonexperimental as a broad category that also includes quasi-experiments without random assignment.
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Usage notes
Usually before a noun. Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Non-experimental is a punctuation variant, not a new headword. Register: academic. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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