A psychologist was looking for the cause of failure among school children. She took a group of former students who had flunked out and a group of students who had received good grades in Chemistry. She gave both groups a self-esteem test and found that the group that flunked out scored lower on the test than did the group that received good grades. She concluded that low self-esteem is one of the causes of failure in Chemistry and suggested further that a person with low self-esteem probably expects to fail and exhibits defeatist behavior in class, which eventually leads to failure.
1) Identify the Independent variables
2) Identify the dependent variable
3) Identify the experimental error
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It is complicated. However, indepvariable: sellf esteem score, dependent var: grade in chem, experimential error...innate variance on the self esteem score, and the variance in chem scores.
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