A researcher is interested in the eventual divorce rates of people who live together before they get married compared to those w
ho never cohabitate before marriage. The researcher is particularly interested in the couples who cohabitate to see if that leads to higher divorce rates. In a sense, the couples who do not cohabitate are serving as the ________ group.
In a scientific experiment, there's often two groups: a control group and an experimental group. These two groups are the same, except that for the experimental group, an independent variable is changed. The idea behind this is that a change in the independent variable will yield a different result for the dependent variable. For this experiment, the independent variable is whether couples cohabitate before marriage or not, and the dependent variable is the divorce rate. <u>The group of couples who do not cohabitate will be the experimental group, as the cohabitation variable is changed for this group.</u>
First and foremost was the religious faith of the participants. They were devout Catholics and wanted to be faithful to the church. When Pope Urban II called on Europeans to free the Holy Land from Muslim control in 1095, thousands of European Christians took up the mission.
it is a large sandstone formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) southwest of the nearest large town: Alice Springs.
