A researcher finds that in a study of direction finding, males are less likely to acknowledge being lost than females. In this study, the independent variable is
A) whether or not participants get lost
B) a willingness to admit being lost
C) a subject variable
D) a manipulated variable

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The independent variable in this study is a subject variable, which refers to characteristics inherent to the participants, such as gender, that are not manipulated by the researcher.

A Researcher Finds That in a Study of Direction Finding