The Director of Training at our organization wants to provide training to all salespeople across all branches of our organization. If we regressed training scores on instructor quality, ______ would be our x variable, and ______ would be our y variable.
A) Instructor quality, training scores
B) training scores, branch
C) branch, training scores
D) training scores, instructor quality

Question

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Instructor quality is the independent variable (x variable) because it is the variable that is being manipulated or changed. Training scores are the dependent variable (y variable) because they are the variable that is being measured or observed.

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