Question

A researcher runs an experiment to test the effect of a new drug designed to treat anxiety. The researcher gives one group of people the drug and a different group of people a placebo (a sugar pill). Then the researcher measured the amount of anxiety experienced by people in each group. In this example, the dependent variable is _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

Anxiety

Explanation:

The characteristics or circumstances that researchers alter in an experimental are known as independent factors or variables. This measure, according to your assumption, has a direct influence on the dependent parameter . The dependent variables (DV) can be understood as the variables that you see or evaluate.

Thus, from the above we can conclude that the dependent variable is anxiety in this experiment.