With what-if scenarios, you start by creating a basic model and then tweaking it (configuring it in different ways) by forming different combinations of your independent variables (your input) and/or your functions and formulas.

He concludes that, as independent variable, religion has contributed to political development as much as hindered it, but that religion is far more a dependent value that is shaped by the state context within which it operates.

It was found that, significant correlations were observed between achievement in statistics and each of the independent variables (cognitive and affective factors), indicating highly significant positive correlations between achievement in statistics and numerical ability, attitude toward statistics, attitude toward mathematics and prior exposure to statistics.