A Researcher Wonders Whether Talking to Plants Improves Their Health

Multiple Choice

A researcher wonders whether talking to plants improves their health and conducts a study in which he talks to one group of five plants and does not talk to a second group of five plants.As an indicator of health, the researcher counts the number of blooms that each plant produces after two weeks of talk treatment (or no-talk treatment) .This number is a _____ dependent variable, which means that the data can be analyzed using a _____ test.

A) nominal; nonparametric
B) scale; nonparametric
C) nominal; parametric
D) scale; parametric