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Title: Suppose that you are conducting a study on the effectiveness of a new teaching method and that you ...
Post by: ejohnson3310 on Jan 26, 2018
Suppose that you are conducting a study on the effectiveness of a new teaching method and that you wish to use a hypothesis test to support your claim regarding the mean test score under this method.
 
  What restrictions are there in the wording of the claim? Will your claim become the null hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis, or does it depend on the situation? Give an example of a claim which is incorrectly worded.


Title: Re: Suppose that you are conducting a study on the effectiveness of a new teaching method and that ...
Post by: bolbol on May 2, 2022
When conducting a hypothesis test to support your claim, the claim must be worded so that it becomes the alternative hypothesis, in other words it must not contain equality. Examples will vary. Incorrectly worded claims will contain the condition of equality.