Question: Expert testimony in homicide trials of battered women. The Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy (Summer 2003) examined the impact of expert testimony on the outcome of homicide trials that involve battered woman syndrome. Multiple regression was employed to model the likelihood of changing a verdict from not guilty to guilty after deliberations, y, as a function of juror gender and whether or not expert testimony was given. Identify the independent variables in the model as quantitative or qualitative.