A political scientist is curious as to what influences voting behavior on taxes for school districts. She obtains a sample of voters and divides them, randomly, into three groups. One group serves as the control group, nothing is done to them. To one experimental group, she gives information about the school taxes that focuses on the positive—how the levy will improve student performance, make the community more attractive to young families, and so on. To the other experimental group, she gives negative information about the school taxes how much overall taxes will increase, how school taxes will take away funding from other projects, how wasteful the school district has been, and so on. She then measures, for each group, the percentage voting in favor of the school taxes.

a. Generate a sentence that states the question the researcher is trying to answer.
b. List the variables and label them as independent and dependent.
c. Determine what type of study is being done: correlational, experimental, or quasi-experimental.
d. If the study is correlational or quasi-experimental, come up with a plausible confounding variable and explain how it affects both variables.