Medical Wonders Is a Specialized Interior Design Company Focused on Healing

question 15

Multiple Choice

Medical Wonders is a specialized interior design company focused on healing artwork.The CEO, Kathleen Kelledy claims that artwork has healing effects for patients staying in a hospital, as measured by reduced length of stay.Her current client is a children's cancer hospital.Kathleen is interested in determining the effect of three different pieces of healing artwork on children.She chooses three paintings (a horse photo, a bright abstract, and a muted beach scene) and randomly assigns six hospital rooms to each painting.In Kathleen's experimental design "reduced length of stay" is _______.

• A)the dependent variable
• B)a concomitant variable
• C)a treatment variable
• D)a blocking variable
• E)a constant

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