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Can snacking on fruit rather than candy reduce later food consumption?

Researchers randomly assigned 12 women to eat either 65 calories of berries or 65 calories of candy. Two hours later, all 12 women were given an unlimited amount of pasta to eat. The researchers recorded the amount of pasta consumed by each subject. The women who ate the berries consumed 133 fewer calories, on average.

Identify the explanatory and response variables, the experimental units, and the treatments

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The explanatory variables is the calories of berries and candy the 12 women were given to eat.

The objective was to determine whether snacking on candy or fruit will trigger increased or reduce food consumption.

Response Variable

This is the rate of food consumption in the 12 women.

It is called a response variable because response variables are the dependent variables. Also called outcome variables, they usually respond to the explanatory variable.

Experimental Unit

  • The 12 women are the experimental units.
  • Experimental units refer to the entity or subject that is of interest or the primary focus of the specific research objective. It may be an animal, a person, or an object.

Treatment

In the above research, the treatment is the unlimited amount of pasta they were given to eat afterward.

Learn more about explanatory variables in the link below:

https://brainly.com/question/2166290

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