Field experiments are done in the everyday (i.e. real life) environment of the participants, such as a school or the workplace.
● The experimenter still manipulates the independent variable (the cause), but in a real-life setting (so cannot really control extraneous variables (variables that can impact the outcome).
● Those involved are not aware that they are the subjects of an experiment.
Theory : Like lab experiments, field experiments are also favoured by positivists. Although they are less controllable than the lab experiment, they allow for the collection of quantitative data,
