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Understanding the relationship between the Treatment groups spreadsheet and the Animals spreadsheet

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The right-hand side of the Experiment page can show either the Treatment groups spreadsheet or the Animals spreadsheet. It's helpful to understand that these two spreadsheets actually show the same information, just from two different points of view.

As the name implies, the Treatment groups spreadsheet shows the different treatment groups together with the number of animals in each one. For example, the spreadsheet might show two groups - 'Saline', containing 6 animals, and 'Drug', containing another 6 animals.

On the other hand, the Animals spreadsheet shows all the animals in the experiment, together with additional information about each animal, including (if relevant) its treatment. So in the example from the previous paragraph, there would be 12 rows in the spreadsheet, one for each animal; 6 of the animals would be shown having a treatment of 'Saline' and 6 having a treatment of 'Drug'.

Any changes you make in one spreadsheet will necessarily alter the other, because they show the same data. Thus, in our example, if you changed the treatment of an animal in the Animals spreadsheet from being 'Saline' to being 'Drug', and you then switched to view the Treatment groups spreadsheet, it would now show 5 animals in the 'Saline' group and 7 in the 'Drug' group.

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