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Hypothesis Testing

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Hypothesis Testing

Question 1; What is the broad question? Is there a correlation between behaviour change and

the effort it requires? What was the specific question? Does task type influence the accuracy of

effort prediction?

Question 2: Alternative hypothesis: What are the hypothesis?

Ho: There is no significant difference between task type and accuracy of effort prediction.

H1: There is significant difference between task type and accuracy of effort prediction.

Question 3: Logic: if the hypothesis are true, then what was the predicted outcome? The

hypothesis is accepted and treated as a theory if and only if experimental tests reveal that the

explanation supplied by the hypothesis is acceptable and accurate. In this case, the prediction

would be there is no significant difference between task type, and accuracy of effort prediction.

Which means to accept the null hypothesis.

Alternatively, If an experiment reveals that the hypothesis's underlying explanation is

inaccurate or erroneous, the hypothesis may be judged false and rejected. Therefore, we

accept the alternative hypothesis that there is significant difference between task type, and

accuracy of effort prediction. This would be the predicted outcome.

Question 4: Method: what did they do in the experiment? They had two-sided questions

depending on how hard and easy it is to read the font. They used the different responses to

make a decision.
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Question 5: Results: There is significant difference between task type and accuracy of effort

prediction. Main finding was: The easy tasks were easier to perform as compared to the difficult

to read tasks.

Question 6: Inferences: Conclusion on the hypothesis; we fail to accept the null hypothesis that

there is no significant difference between task type and accuracy of effort prediction, and we

accept the alternative hypothesis that there is significant difference between task type and

accuracy of effort prediction. Conclusion statement of the specific is; the task type has a

significant effect on the accuracy of effort prediction. Conclusion statement of the broad

question: there is a correlation between behaviour change and the effort required.