Dr. Van Offer is a medical researcher and is very interested in which of two new drugs is better in treating high blood pressure. He asks 60 men with high blood pressure to join the experiment and then he assigns each to a group of 30
He gives one group the first drug and the other group the other drug. What is the independent variable and what is the dependent variable in this study? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Drug is independent (it is being manipulated); blood pressure is the variable that is
influenced by the drug taken and is the dependent variable.
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