Question

You decide to study the effects of smoking, drinking and partying on life satisfaction. To do so, you assign people randomly to one of two smoking conditions (smoking or not), one of three drinking conditions (no alcohol, 1 drink per day, several drinks per day) and partying conditions (no partying, 1 hour of partying per day, 2 hours of partying per day). This design has

Answer 1

3 factors ; 18 total conditions

Explanation:

The study focuses on the 3 factirs which impacts life satisfaction. Thses factors are : Smoking ; Drinking and Partying and they constitute the 3 different factor variables in the study.

For each factor variable, each has a number of different conditions ;

For smoking : 2 conditions (smoking and not smoking)

Drinking : 3 conditions (no alcohol, 1 / day ; several per day)

Partying : 3 conditions (no partying, 1 hour of partying / day, 2 hours of partying / day)

Total number of conditions :

(2 * 3 * 3) = 18 conditions