Raymond Mayer is conducting a study on discrimination against campaign activists based on gender. In his study, he noted that male executives who visited Indonesian villages to promote the use of renewable energy received a highly positive response. In contrast, women who visited the same villages, received an antagonistic response from them. However, Mayer stated that his findings only applied to villages. In this study, the presence of a village is considered a ________ variable.
A) global
B) general
C) dependent
D) non-reactive
E) contingency

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The presence of a village is a factor that influences the response of the villagers to the campaign activists. It is not a general or global variable, as it is specific to the context of the study. It is also not a dependent variable, as it does not depend on any other factor in the study. Non-reactive variables refer to variables that are not affected by the study itself, which is not the case here. Therefore, the best choice is contingency variable, as it refers to a variable that is specific to the context of the study and influences the outcome.

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