Let's Assume You Are Conducting an Experiment to Determine the Effect

question 17

Multiple Choice

Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. Incidence of seizures is an example of a(n) _________.

• A) dependent variable
• B) constant
• C) statistic
• D) independent variable

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