Tyson's effect on Esteban and his life could be best described by ethos.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Ethos is a word that best describes the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. A man's character or personality can be explained by ethos; it also explains the balance between passion and caution.
Aristotle is a Greek philosopher, he coined the word “Ethos”.
Esteban responds that Neil deGrasse Tyson is his hero and he wants to give back to his own culture through spreading scientific knowledge, just like Tyson did. In the above statement, ethos best describes the Tyson's effect on Esteban and his life.
d. the extent to which our senses influence intelligence.
Answer: 3) Confounding variable
Explanation:Confounding variable is the variable that indicates about the external influential factors that produces the manipulated consequences of independent and dependent variable.This variable can lead to producing useless outcomes in an experiment.
According to the question, the changes occurring in interest of student in algebra can be due to the outside factors which are not generating the actual results and thus, experiment is getting ruined.
Other options are incorrect because application variable remain same for the experiment,system variable are the variables of certain system and reliability variables describe about the variable on which dependent or stable.Thus, the correct option is option(3)