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. The number of seizures for each of the 20 subjects constitutes _________.
A) the dependent variable
B) data
C) a statistic
D) the independent variable
Correct Answer:
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Correct Answer:
Verified
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