Aims And Hypothesis Flashcards

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What’s a null hypothesis and give an example

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There’s no effect or a relationship between key variables
Eg- there’s no significant difference between eating greens and hair conditions

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What’s directional hypothesis

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-there’s either an increase or decrease
Eg- there’s a significant increase in ice cream sales and good weather

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Non directional

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There’s a difference but we can’t say whether it is increase or decrease
Eg - there’s a difference in how extroverted someone is and the amount of siblings they have

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Correlational

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Either positive or negative
-there’s a positive correlation between smoking and lung cancer

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Correlational

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Either positive or negative
-there’s a positive correlation between smoking and lung cancer

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