Researchers have been interested in investigating whether there is a link between social media use and depression among high school students, and a group of statistics students are interested in collecting data from local high schools to study this as a class project. Through data collection from a survey, they plan to use the number of hours spent on social media to predict a self-reported depression level (on a scale of 0 to 10) and regression analysis to determine if they should propose the use of interventions on these campuses.

For each of the following use the drop-down menu to classify the variable as explanatory,response,or neither.

Group of answer choices

Whether the student uses social media (yes, no)

[ Choose ] Explanatory variable Response variable Neither

Number of hours spent on social media

[ Choose ] Explanatory variable Response variable Neither

Whether the student has feelings of depression (yes, no)

[ Choose ] Explanatory variable Response variable Neither

Self-reported depression level

[ Choose ] Explanatory variable Response variable Neither