Limitations of experimentation method

Experimental method has also some limitations which are as follows.

1.   Though some control is there, absolute control over variable is not possible. Because we are conducting experiments on human beings or animals, we can not control personal difference s which may affect dependent variables.

2.   Experimental situation is artificial and results may not be generalized well to the real world. The individual may show different behavior in laboratory and real life.

3.   Sometimes experimenters’ biasness may affect the result. For example the experimenter is biased toward some people and if he is experimenting on those subjects chances are the result may be biased.

4.   Though effects of extraneous variables are minimized, there may be still some effect of some of the extraneous variables in dependent variable.

Though there are some advantages and limitations, this method is very much used to find cause and effect and to generalize the findings.