Diana is running a study where she wants to find out the general impact of IQ on an individual's success in graduate school. She wants to exclude any effect of an individual's socio-economic status (SES) on their graduate school success. In her analysis, SES would be…
A) a dependent variable.
B) an independent variable.
C) a control variable.
D) a confound variable.

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SES is being used as a control variable in this study, as Diana wants to eliminate its impact on the relationship between IQ and graduate school success. A dependent variable is the outcome being measured in a study, an independent variable is the one being manipulated, and a confound variable is an extraneous variable that can affect the outcome of interest.

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