A researcher is interested in studying racial/ethnic differences in preference for spicy foods.She selects a sample of n=50 African Americans, n=50 Asian Americans, n=50 Latino Americans and n=50 European Americans and has each participant (1) look at 100 images of various types of foods and then (2) select the 20 meals they would prefer to eat. She would then count out of the 20 meal pictures chosen by each participant, how many out of those 20, were images of spicy foods.She wants to determine if there will be any racial/ethnic differences.

(a) What is/are the independent variable(s)?

(b) What are the levels of each independent variable?

(c)What is the scale of measurement of the independent variable?

(d) What is the dependent variable?

(e) What is the scale of measurement of the dependent variable?

(f) What is the appropriate hypothesis test to analyze the data?Explain.