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Default Re: variants vs. variables

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Originally Posted by NearThere View Post
David, I think I'm getting it. So would you say they are completely different and should not be compared with each other?

And also could you spare a moment, if you're not too busy of course, to give me examples that could demonstrate the differences between the 2? thanks

NT
from British Corpus:
"For example, consider a hypothetical experiment on the effect of drinking alcohol on reaction time: Subjects drank either water, one beer, three beers, or six beers and then had their reaction times to the onset of a stimulus measured. The independent variable would be the number of beers drunk (0, 1, 3, or 6) and the dependent variable would be reaction time."
Variabe is a value which my change.

there are 2000 variants of chees.
variant=kind which is based on its parent/root
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