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Underline the independent variable and encircle the dependent variable.

1. Effect of temperature on plant pigmentation

2. Effects of fertilizer brand on plant growth

3. Brightness of light has any effect on a moth being attracted to the light

4. The test scores of students and time spent studying

5. Relationship between disposable income and location amongst young adults

6. Job satisfaction and salary among Tayabas residents

7. The more time people spend using social media, the less they read books.

8. Drinking energy drinks makes people more aggressive.

9. Taking a nap in the afternoon makes people more focused for the rest of the day.

10. Spending time with a family dog decreases the amount of stress someone is feeling.

11. Students watched a cartoon either alone or with others and then rated how funny they found the cartoon to be.

12. A comprehension test was given to students after they had studied textbook material either in silence or with the
television turned on.

13. Some elementary school teachers were told that a child’s parents were college graduates, and other teachers were
told that the child’s parents had not finished high school; they then rated the child’s grades.

14. Workers at a company were assigned to one of two conditions: One group completed a stress management training
program; another group of workers did not participate in the training. The number of sick days taken by these workers
was examined for the next 2 months.

15. Students at a University were split into two groups and each received a different text for a philosophy course. Once
group received a traditional text book, while the other received an interactive textbook on a tablet computer. After the
course, the final exam grades between the two groups of students was compared.

Write if nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.

1. telephone numbers
2. leap years...2008, 2012, 2016
3. amounts of money spent on a medical checkup
4. scores on a statistical final exam
5. ratings of fiction books--excellent, good, fair, poor
6. online spending
7. heat measured in degrees centigrade
8. left hand--right hand
9. level of satisfaction for a particular breakfast cereal
10. city of birth
Identify what is being describe in each statement.

________________11. element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change

________________12. the variable that stays the same

________________13. a variable that is intentionally changed to observe its effect on the dependent variable

________________14. the event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed

________________15. variable wherein the zero on the scale means: does not exist