The race of a criminal offender is found to determine the frequency with which capital punishment is administered. In this example, the frequency with which capital punishment is administered would be considered the

A. hypothesis.
B. dependent variable.
C. independent variable.
D. index.


Answer: B

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The Harvard social psychologists Hennig and Jardim believed that to succeed in business, women needed

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