Mr. Bailey decides to do an experiment to see if different types of popcorn pop faster in the microwave. The TV commercials say that popalicious is the fastest popping popcorn in the world. Mr. Bailey's hypothesis was, "if i pop jiffy pop, popalicious, and pop-tastic popcorn in a microwave, then the popalicious will pop faster because the commercial says so. "he takes jiffy pop, popalicious, and pop-tastic and places them each in the microwave for 2 minutes. After two minutes is up, he counts the number of popped kernels in the bag. After three trials, jiffy pop had an average of 256 popped kernels, popalicious had an average of 341 popped kernels, and pop-tastic had an average of 357 popped kernels. What is the independent variable in this experiment?

popcorn

Explanation:

In this specific scenario, the independent variable would be the popcorn brand. This is simply because the popcorn itself does not depend on the microwave or any other factor of the experiment for better results. Instead, it is the microwave that depends on the popcorn brands to affect the overall outcome of how many kernels were popped. Therefore in this scenario, the microwave is the dependant variable while the popcorn is the independent variable.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.