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Discover LudwigThe phrase "affect the difficulty" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or variables can influence the level of difficulty of a task or situation.
Example: "The complexity of the project can significantly affect the difficulty of completing it on time."
Alternatives: "influence the difficulty" or "impact the difficulty".
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The distractor word difficulty has also been shown to affect the difficulty of an item (Susanti et al. 2016), so we consider this factor too.
Instead, the other two factors that can be recognised by the test takers, i.e. DWD and RPD, affect the difficulty for them.
Another study conducted by O'Loughlin and Wigglesworth (2003) have shown that quantity and manner of presentation of information may affect the difficulty of graph-based writing task.
More recently, Loukina et al. (2016) conducted a study to investigate the extent to which textual properties of a text affect the difficulty of listening items in the English test.
The present study evaluated some factors that could affect the difficulty of aiming and clicking for children from Kindergarten 2 and Grade 1. Adults participated to serve as a reference group.
However, the reasons why sleep quality can affect the difficulty of colonoscopy are not clear.
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It is possible that the aforementioned "voids" in primary education, either on the level of curricula and textbooks or of the educators themselves, affect the difficulties that exist in the learning of evolution in older ages as well.
The applicability of policies affects the difficulty of implementing policy; the more applicable a policy is, the less difficult it is to implement.
The polymer is sensitive to applied forces like pressure and torsion (twisting) because such forces alter the distance between the nickel atoms, affecting the difficulty the electrons have jumping from one to the other and changing the electrical resistance of the polymer.
Unlike previous games in the series separate difficulty settings for combat and puzzles are not available, changing the combat difficulty also affects the difficulty of puzzles.
Note that the number of exons of a gene significantly affects the difficulty of isoform reconstruction.
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