Suppose you wanted to study the relationship between high school graduation rate and crime. What might your hypothesis be? What
would be the independent variable in your study? The dependent
variable? What existing data could you examine to support your
hypothesis?

Hypothesis: To study the relationship between the graduation rate and crime among school going children.

Independent variable: school going children

Dependent variable: crime rate

A few previous study based on the similar hypothesis by other researchers.

Explanation:

Independent variable: The term independent variable is determined as a specific variable in a research study or an experiment that is being changed or altered by a researcher or an experimenter to see its effect on the experiments' dependent variable.

Dependent variable: The term dependent variable is determined as a specific variable that is being tested in a research or an experiment.

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