Question: Johnson, Koch, Fallow, and Huwe (2000) conducted a study of mentoring in two types of psychology doctoral programs: experimental and clinical. Students who graduated from the two types of programs were asked whether they had a faculty mentor while in graduate school. In response, 48.00% of clinical psychology students who graduated between 1945 and 1950 and 62.31% who graduated between 1996 and 1998 reported having had a mentor; 78.26% of experimental psychology students who graduated between 1945 and 1950 and 78.79% who graduated between 1996 and 1998 reported having had a mentor.
a. What are the two independent variables in this study, and what are their levels?
b. What is the dependent variable?
c. Create a bar graph that depicts the percentages for the two independent variables simultaneously.
d. What story is this graph telling us?
e. Was this a true experiment? Explain your answer.