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Desolo Desolo
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A researcher wants to know whether writing an essay on a controversial topic will have an effect on the attitudes held by people. First, she administers an attitude survey that covers a number of topics, including electronic voting machines. She then randomly assigns subjects to write an essay either supporting or opposing electronic voting machines. One week later, she administers the same attitude survey and compares those responses to the responses from the first time the survey was administered. In this experiment, the independent variable (IV) is ________.
 
A) the attitude survey
B) the essay
C) the controversial topic
D) the students' attitudes
E) random assignment
 
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9 years ago
Thanks for taking the time to find the right answer. This is going to help with my final exam review.
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9 years ago
Great, I'm glad it worked out.

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