In a Study Designed to Identify Factors Involved in Helping

question 14

Multiple Choice

In a study designed to identify factors involved in helping behavior, a man on a crowded bus clutches his chest and falls to the floor. In one of the conditions of the study the man is clean shaven and wearing a suit; in the other condition he has a scraggly beard and is wearing a dirty t-shirt and jeans. The amount of time it takes for someone to help the man is recorded. In this example the dependent variable is

• A) the amount of time it takes someone to help.
• B) the appearance of the man.
• C) the participants in the study.
• D) how crowded the bus is.

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Definitions:

Balanced Portfolio

An investment approach that aims at balancing risk and reward by diversifying assets across various financial instruments.

Mutually Exclusive

Mutually exclusive events are those events that cannot occur at the same time, implying no overlap in their occurrence.

Mutually Exclusive

Events that cannot occur at the same time, implying that the occurrence of one event excludes the possibility of the other event occurring.

Independent

In statistics, refers to variables that are not affected by other variables in the context of the analysis.