Student Number: 0615213 Section: wi0g .Th e dataset shown below is from an exper
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Question
Student Number: 0615213 Section: wi0g .Th e dataset shown below is from an experiment examining the corelation between number of hours youth play pro-social (P-S) video games (characters help eachother) and level of self-report agression. Twelve youth documented the number of hours they played P-S video games for four days and completed a questionnaire about their level of agression (maximum score of 50). The researc assumed that more hours playing P-S video games is related to lower self-report agression a. Is this a one-tailed or a two-tailed test (2 marks)? one- taikd b. State your null hypothesis for this study; use sentence format, not symbols (2 marks). c. State your research hypothesis for this study; use sentence format, not symbols (2 marks)
Explanation / Answer
a. In an experiment or test when the hypothesis tested is asking whether there is significant higher or lower value to reject the by chance criteria, is a one tailed test.
Answer. This is a one-tailed test, as there is a significant lower values for variables that were measured.
b. A null hypothesis rejects any statistical significance between the variables that are being measured.
Null Hypothesis for this test is;
Answer. Youths playing Pro-social games do not exhibit a lower scores in self-report aggression test.
c. The research hypothesis is the actual statement of research purpose, that states there is a significant relationship between the variables that are being measured.
Research statement is as following;
Answer. Youths playing Pro-social games exhibit a lower scores in self-report aggression test