1.33 Light, noise, and exam performance. A study is designed to test the effect of light level and noise level on exam performance of students. The researcher believes that light and noise levels might have different effects on males and females, so wants to make sure both are equally represented in each treatment. The light treatments considered are fluorescent overhead lighting, yellow overhead lighting, no overhead lighting (only desk lamps). The noise treatments considered are no noise, construction noise, and human chatter noise.

  1. What is the response variable?

The response variable for this study is exam performance of the students.

  1. How many factors are considered in this study? Identify them, and describe their levels.

The researchers wanted to testthe Light level: overhead lighting, yellow overhead lighting, no overhead lighting and Noise level: no noise, construction noise, and human chatter noise.

  1. What is the role of the sex variable in this study

In this study, the researchers decided to equally test both genders. Therefore, this study is considered blocking.