Multiple Choice
Researchers studying the effects of caffeine tested the reaction times of women who first drank either a beverage with caffeine or a decaffeinated version of the same beverage.In this study, the reaction time of each participant would be:
A) a placebo
B) a confounding variable
C) the independent variable
D) the dependent variable
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