In a study comparing literacy across families of different social economic status the researchers distributed surveys to families in which they indicated the yearly household income and to list how many books the parents had read in the past year. In this example family income was   A. a manipulated variable     B. a measured variable     C. the dependent variable     D. a conceptual variable

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  1. In a study comparing literacy across families of different social economic status the researchers distributed surveys to families in which they indicated the yearly household income and to list how many books the parents had read in the past year. In this example family income was

      A.

    a manipulated variable

     

      B.

    a measured variable

     

      C.

    the dependent variable

     

      D.

    a conceptual variable

     

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Experimental research is concerned with the relationship among the two variables. In this research certain factors or manipulated or controlled in order to study its effect on other factors. The main aim of this research to find a cause-and-effect relationship among these factors, which are subjected to vary under the study, thus these are referred to as variables. Data structure for experimental methods are usually based on a hypothesis, the basis of the research and the experiment is conducted to test the hypothesis and to collect empirical evidences to support it. Experiments are conducted in Laboratories, Field or in Natural environment.

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