I am trying to identify all variable in this research situat

I am trying to identify all variable in this research situations and classify them by their level of measurement. Which varibles are independent and which are dependent?

A researcher is wondering about racial preferences in dating among college students and asks a large sampe of undergraduates about their own raical self-identification, She then asks the respondents to rank some racial-ethnic categories (stated as: white, black, latino, Asisan) in terms of desirabiltiy as potential dates

Solution

The only dependent variable is racial self-identification since every students want to have date with particular racial-ethnic categories of different sex

But the potential dates, dating among college are independent variables