What are the similarities and differences between Dependent, independent and controlled variables?
Welll first of all the independent variable is what YOU change during an experiment. For example, if I’m doing an experiment on the effect of staples on a the flight of a paper airplane, then the independent variable is the weight of the paper airplane because that’s what you’re changing when you put on the staples. That’s where the dependent variable comes in. The dependent variable depends on what you change. In this case the dependent variable is the flight of the paper airplane. This is so because the flight of the airplane depends on how much weight you put on the airplane. So to put it in simple terms ; the independent variable is the YOU changed variable and the dependent variable is the IT changed variable. I think I have an idea of what the controlled variable is but I’m not so sure. So that’s all the info. I know. Hope it helped.
