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A Second Look at Research Hypotheses Versus Statistical Hypotheses
A Second Look at Research Hypotheses Versus Statistical Hypotheses
A Second Look at Research Hypotheses Versus Statistical Hypotheses
What ofthen confuses the novice researcher is that testing the null
hyphotesis involves nothing more than a statistical comparison of the data from
two situations one hypothetical ( a theoretical distribution) and one real (the
data collected from a research sample). To the research data, we apply certain
statistical produres to determine whether calculated values sufficiently diverge
from the statistical ideal to reject the null hypothesis.