PSYC 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Random Assignment, Sexual Addiction, Common Cold
12 Jan 2017
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Some aspect of a testing condition that can change or take on different characteristics with different conditions. A variable must be able to vary to take on different values. Therefore, if everyone in the study is 5"8 tall, height is not a variable, it is a constant. Height is only a variable if it is allowed to take on more than one value. Independent variables are not measured variables ; the levels of the independent. Variables are set up as conditions by which we compare participants on a measured. Therefore, independent variables do not have to consist of numeric values although they can. The independent variable is the variable that is believed to cause some change in the value of the. As noted before, all variables, measured and not measured must take on more than one value. Therefore, every independent variable must have at least two values, called levels of.
