Jenna wants to learn whether men or women are better drivers. to determine this, she decides that she will measure driving ability by examining the number of automobile accidents people have been involved in as a driver. thus, she is using the number of accidents as the basis of

I believe the answer is: the independent variable in this study.

Independent variable refers to the type of variable that cannot be affected by other variables and would by the researchers as a control group.  To measure which one is better of driving, examples of the independent variables that could be used are : Number of accidents,  number of traffic violation, number of gender who compete in professional driving, etc.

i think the answer is true