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A sociologist performs an experiment designed to investigate the effect of marriage counseling on divorce. she divides research participants into two similar groups of troubled couples, provides one group with counseling, and observes whether, over time, the two groups eventually divorce at different rates. what is the independent variable in this experiment?

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 The independent variable in this study is marriage counseling

An independent variable is that which does not change in  a study, while the dependent variable is that which is affected by the independent variable, while itself, it does not affect the independent variable to change. in this study, the independent variable is marriage counseling,while divorce is the  dependent variable.