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As a pollster for Smart Polling,you are concerned about gauging the public's attitudes about arms-control policy.You believe that the public not only has little information on this complex topic,but also has thought little about it.What procedure might you implement to increase the accuracy of your polling data?


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Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact by controlling and manipulating variables.

Confound

A variable that influences both the dependent and independent variables in a study, potentially misleading the results or conclusions.

Independent Variable

In an experiment, the variable that is manipulated or changed by the researcher to observe its effects on the dependent variable.

Independent Variable

A variable that is manipulated in an experiment to observe its effect on the dependent variable.

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