Question

Select one qualitative and one quantitative question that you are interested in investigating. Identify the independent and dependent variables. Next, create a hypothesis or set of hypotheses to go along with your research question. Identify your hypothesis as one of each of the four categories below and explain why your hypothesis fits into these categories (hint: review chapter 3).

Associative or causal
Simple or complex
Nondirectional vs. directional
Null vs. research

Answer 1

Quantitative

A study on Smoking and how it causes lung cancer.

Independent variable:Smoking

It is the independent variable as it doesn't depend on the lung cancer.

Dependent variable: Lung Cancer

It is the outcome of smoking

Hypothesis:Assosiative

Most of the lung cancer patient have been smokers for over 10 years

It's associative because it is associating the probability of lung cancer with long term smoking.

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