You conduct an experiment in which you compare how people with one of three different psychiatric disorders respond to a new drug. Your independent variable can be described as being
A) quantitative.
B) concrete.
C) factorial.
D) qualitative.

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The independent variable in this experiment is the type of psychiatric disorder, which is a categorical variable and thus qualitative, not quantitative.

You Conduct an Experiment in Which You Compare How People