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Conduct a research proposal on the Psychological and Physical Affects of Domestic Violence.

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Explains the difference between independent and dependent variables, with examples from domestic violence.

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Your Independent Variable (IV) is whatever is going to differ between the groups in your study. For your topic, it would make sense for you to have this be some measure of experience with domestic violence. Thus, your IV is Level of Experience with Domestic Violence. Once you've identified that, you also need to identify how many levels, or groups, you have in your IV - this is the operationalizing part of the process. Your IV can have as many levels as you think makes sense. For example, you could have two levels (experienced domestic violence; never experienced domestic violence) or three levels (currently experiences domestic violence; has ...

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