Exercise: Identifying the Elements of an Experiment from the Mass Media Locate a news article online the internet that describes the results of an experiment, medical or psychological. You can google a question and add the tag experiment to find articles also. Although many news reports do not contain complete information, please name as many as possible of the following components of the research described in the article: hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, experimental group(s), control group(s), and the results.