Sue is conducting an experiment in which she is trying to determine the influence of staring at a speaker on how much different speakers stutter. Sue sends people to a speech class with instructions to stare for varied amounts of time at the speaker
The dependent variable is the ________.
A) speaker
B) people doing the staring
C) amount of time that the people stare
D) the speech class
E) amount of stuttering that occurs
Answer: E
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