I should have figured you were full of CRAP and simply want to prove you're SUPPOSEDLY smarter than EVERYONE else. Nothing more than feigned intellectual DOUBLE TALK.
Here's what I KNOW about "variables" Holmes.
1. The INDEPENDENT variable is the cause. Its value is independent of other variables in your study.
2. The DEPENDENT variable is the effect. Its value depends on changes in the INDEPENDENT variable.
Let me give you a SIMPLE example of WHAT I mean.
I'll imagine that you're happily married.. you and your wife have a normal relationship... then, she meets a NEW female friend, who eventually, through various circumstances, drags your wife into a (God forbid) LESBIAN relationship.
My question?... would not the NEW female friend unexpectedly have become the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE neither, of which, YOU or your WIFE had ever expected to occur?
That is analogous to MAN, after 4 BILLION years, being introduced to a PLANET endowed with a SELF-SUSTAINING SYSTEM.
“Its value is independent of other variables in your study.”
Exactly what I posted!
“I’ll imagine that you’re happily married.. you and your wife have a normal relationship... then, she meets a NEW female friend, who eventually, through various circumstances, drags your wife into a (God forbid) LESBIAN relationship.
My question?... would not the NEW female friend unexpectedly have become the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE neither, of which, YOU or your WIFE had ever expected to occur?”
No. Every action the new female takes during and after the first meeting is predicated by the wife’s and husband’s actions.
“who eventually, through various circumstances, “
Exactly! Through various actions. It takes two to tangle.
“That is analogous to MAN, after 4 BILLION years, being introduced to a PLANET endowed with a SELF-SUSTAINING SYSTEM.”
Man was not “introduced”. Man is as a variable was produced by the environment.
Interesting! That self-substaining system killed off the large predators leaving small mammals that evolved to man.
We would not be where we are today if nature had not influenced Newton with an apple on his head.
“Let me give you a SIMPLE example of WHAT I mean.”
Let me give you a SIMPLE example of WHAT I mean.
The Olympics tried to make man an independent variable. They set the independent variable: Man to swim, bike run 1.5 km, 40 km, and 10 km.
Nature feedback showed that Man was not an independent variable when several got sick from e.coli.