Assignment: Stating null hypotheses
Assignment: Stating null hypotheses
Respond to the following exercises from Chapter One of The Literature Review in 150 to 200 words each. For the Additional Question, record the research and null hypotheses for your project.
- Exercise 1.1: Discovering the Subject of Your Interest or Issue of Inquiry
- Exercise 1.2: Understanding the Personal Viewpoint
- Exercise 1.3: Selecting the Focus of Your Study
- Exercise 1.5: Developing Your Interest Statement
Additional Question: What are your research and null hypotheses?
Details:
Create a 6- to 8- slide PowerPoint presentation (including a title and reference slide) addressing the following:
- The physiological effects of pornography on the brain
- The negative consequences of pornography and cybersex on a client’s ability to function in everyday life
- How the negative consequences may present themselves during counseling
Include at least two scholarly references in your presentation.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
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Actually, whenever I talk about an hypothesis, I am really thinking simultaneously about two hypotheses. Let’s say that you predict that there will be a relationship between two variables in your study. The way we would formally set up the hypothesis test is to formulate two hypothesis statements, one that describes your prediction and one that describes all the other possible outcomes with respect to the hypothesized relationship. Your prediction is that variable A and variable B will be related (you don’t care whether it’s a positive or negative relationship). Then the only other possible outcome would be that variable A and variable B are not related. Usually, we call the hypothesis that you support (your prediction) the alternative hypothesis, and we call the hypothesis that describes the remaining possible outcomes the null hypothesis. Sometimes we use a notation like HA or H1 to represent the alternative hypothesis or your prediction, and HO or H0 to represent the null case. You have to be careful here, though. In some studies, your prediction might very well be that there will be no difference or change. In this case, you are essentially trying to find support for the null hypothesis and you are opposed to the alternative.
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