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Randomized experiments were institutionalized in psychology and education in the late eighteen-hundreds, following the invention of randomized experiments by [[Charles Sanders Peirce|C. S. Peirce]].<ref>{{cite journal| author=[[Charles Sanders Peirce]] and [[Joseph Jastrow]]| year=1885|title=On Small Differences in Sensation| journal=Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=3|pages=73–83|url=http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Peirce/small-diffs.htm}} http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Peirce/small-diffs.htm</ref><ref>{{cite journal| doi=10.1086/354775| first=Ian |last=Hacking| authorlink=Ian Hacking | title=Telepathy: Origins of Randomization in Experimental Design|journal=[[Isis (journal)|Isis]]| issue=3| volume=79| date=September 1988 |pages=427–451| mr = 1013489| jstor=234674}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| doi=10.1086/444032|author=[[Stephen M. Stigler]]|title=A Historical View of Statistical Concepts in Psychology and Educational Research| journal=American Journal of Education| volume=101| issue=1| date=November 1992|pages=60–70|author-link=Stephen M. Stigler}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1086/383850|author=Trudy Dehue|title=Deception, Efficiency, and Random Groups: Psychology and the Gradual Origination of the Random Group Design|journal=[[Isis (journal)|Isis]]| volume=88| issue=4| date=December 1997| pages=653–673|pmid=9519574|url=https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/71855616/237831.pdf}}</ref>

Outside of psychology and education, randomized experiments were popularized by [[R.A. Fisher]] in his book ''[[Statistical Methods for Research Workers]]'', which also introduced additional principles of experimental design.