what are the primary independent variable and the Control variable?

Question

People of higher statues are more inclined to discriminate against people of a lower status
Concepts- social statues, discrimination
Research question- Are people of higher statues are more inclined to discriminate against people of a lower status?
Independent variable- statues
Dependent variable- Discrimination of people of a lower static

or just what does primary independent variable mean and control variable?

just need what a primary independent variable is. i know what an independent variable is but i dont get what the primary one is. i have never heard of a primary independent variable is.

the question
a/ one page that clearly states: the topic, the concepts, the research question (how the concepts might be related), your operationalization of the concepts into variables, including the dependent variable, primary independent variable, the control variables, and which questions are measuring which variables (clearly state the question number in the survey that corresponds to each variable), the hypothesis (the causal ordering of your variables).

Answer 1

An independent variable is the event manipulated "independently" by the experimenter. The dependent variable is the result we observe.

In the design of experiments and data analysis, control variables are those variables that are not changed throughout the trials in an experiment because the experimenter is not interested in the effect of that variable being changed for that particular experiment. (In other words, control variables are extraneous factors, possibly affecting the experiment, that are kept constant so as to minimize their effects on the outcome.) An example of a control variable in an experiment might be keeping the pressure constant in an experiment designed to test the effects of temperature on bacterial growth.

In a scientific experiment, the controlled variable never changes; it is the same for every setup. For example, in an evaporation experiment, the area must be the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_variable

So in your experiment, you plan to manipulate the status of the person your subjects will interact with. Your hypothesis is that the subject will be more likely to discriminate in some way against a person of lower status.

What you need to control are any other factors that might lead to discrimination, such as what the contact says and how he says it. One possible way to control these factors is to use an introduction to manipulate the supposed status of the contact, but to use the exact same person--appearance, language, accent, etc.--as the contact.

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Bruce

Answer 2

Primary Independent Variable

Answer 3

the independent variable is the variable that you can effect
in this case it would be the status of the people because you can choose if you want them to be higher or lower. as far as primary independent i have not heard of that but there should only be one independent variable otherwise your results won't be certain because you couldn't tell what variable caused the reaction

a control variable is anything that you don't change as you experiment.

Answer 4

if you were measuring how much force it took to pull objects of different weight across the floor, you would repeat the same experiment for each object of a given mass. It would be up to you to change the mass of the objects - thus that would be your manipulated variable. The corresponding force would be different for each mass - it changes in response to the change in mass and is therefore a responding variable. Anything you change is manipulated, anything that changes because of what you changed is responding