Accounting and Machiavellianism. A study of Machiavellian traits in accountants was published in Behavioral Research in Accounting (Jan. 2008).

Machiavellian describes negative character traits such as manipulation, cunning, duplicity, deception, and bad faith. A Machiavellian (“Mach”) rating score was determined for each in a sample of accounting alumni of a large southwestern university. The accountants were then classified as having high, moderate, or low Mach rating LO4 scores. For one portion of the study, the researcher investigated the impact of both Mach score classification and gender on the average income of an accountant. For this experiment, identify each of the following:

a. experimental unit

b. response variable

c. factors

d. levels of each factor

e. treatments