Chers were interested in whether attending a weekly organizing meeting affects employee job satisfaction. They found a large corporation and identified two branches similar in function and number of employees. One of the branches were instructed to hold weekly organizational meetings; the other branch was instructed to not hold weekly organization meetings. After 6 months employees of these two branches were given the Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985), a likert based 36 question survey that ranges from 36-216. High scores represent higher job satisfaction. What is the dependent variable?