Question

A researcher wants to study the relationship between salary and gender. She randomly selects 297 individuals and determines their salary and gender. Can the researcher conclude that salary and gender are dependent?

Answer 1

Answer:

The researcher cannot conclude that salary and gender are dependent.

Step-by-step explanation:

A dependent variable is a variable, for example "Salary" that depends on an independent variable, e.g. "Gender."  Salary is the dependent variable while gender is the independent variable.  This means that the value of salary changes in relation to the gender and not vice versa.  Two variables become dependent if they change based on another independent variable that is operating on them.  In this research, the researcher is not trying to measure gender but the relationship between salary and gender.  To achieve her purpose, she shows that salary depends on gender and not that gender depends on salary.