Suppose You Were Interested in Studying How the Color of a Room

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Essay

Suppose you were interested in studying how the color of a room might affect student performance on exams. Describe the experiment you would design to investigate this, and be sure to indicate what the independent and dependent variables are in the study you chose, and how you might deal with the problem of confounding variables.

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Definitions:

African Americans

A term referring to citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

New Immigrants

Refers to the recent arrivals into a country, who typically come from different cultural, linguistic, or ethnic backgrounds than the majority population.

Urban Ethnic Enclaves

Neighborhoods in urban areas predominantly inhabited by a specific ethnic group, maintaining distinct cultural identities.

Suburbs

Residential areas located on the outskirts of a city or large town, often characterized by a lower population density than urban centers.