PSC 41 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Null Hypothesis, Test Anxiety
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- or we can switch these and still use correlation. Correlation is appropriate for this example because: Predictor variable - test anxiety measurements from self-report. The null hypothesis states that there"s no relation between the two variables. Alternative hypothesis states there is a relation between the two variables. Correlation is an appropriate for this example because: Correlation = used to examine the relation between two continuous variables. Ex 1: a researcher wants to know if there is a strong relation between height and weight, so she collects data on 50 individuals. 05 therefore the p-value is < . 05: reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis hypothesis. Ex 1: a researcher wants to know if there"s a significant relation between playing. Pokemon go and well-being so she measures 106 undergrad students amount of time spend playing pokemon go and well-being using a self-report questionnaire using a scale from 1-10.
