Dependent Variables

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Samantha Vidal Period 2 Mr. Cobian December 5, 2017 PROBLEM A problem is a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome. The problem here is that artists are not being paid for their hard work or them being paid in exposure, which leads to artists barely being able to survive on their own because there is almost no one willing to pay them for their hard work. Being paid in exposure means, for example, in an article written by Susie Pearl, she states a local store has put up an ad that asks for an artist to paint on their store for more customers, and the only thing the artist would get out of it is for other people to see their work and hope someone else would be willing to hire and pay the …show more content…

There are independent variables and dependent variables. Independent variables are variables that are changed or controlled in an experiment to test the effects on the dependent variable. Dependent variables are variables that are being tested and measured in an experiment. They may be viewed in terms of “cause and effect”. If the independent variable is changed, then an effect is seen in the dependent variable. In this case, the independent variable would be the people who are (or not) willing to pay the artist because these people can change or control if they are willing to pay or not to pay the artist. The dependent variable in this case are the artists because they are dependent on people paying them for their work and will change/ be effected, as in survive and have enough money or be low on money and not being able to survive, depending on what the independent variable …show more content…

The simple solution is either just simply pay the artist if you want them to do any work for you, or do not ask for free art unless they are willing to work for free. So if people would pay with money instead of exposure when they want something done from the artist, the artist would be able to survive while doing what they love and would also be able to afford art supplies to practice even more and get better at it so other people would want to pay

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