A nurse at the local hospital wanted to do a study to find out if women have a h

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A nurse at the local hospital wanted to do a study to find out if women have a higher pain tolerance than mean after abdominal surgery. the nurse gathered information from the post-op floor on all patients who have had abdominal surgery fro 2 weeks. When comparing how many times the women in her study requested pain medicine to how many times men requested pain medicine, she found a p-value of <0.02. What would you conclude about the pain tolerance between women and men? Question 2 options: 1) Fail to reject the null hypothesis 2) Reject the null hypothesis 3) Qualitative variable

Explanation / Answer

The null hypothesis is

Women and men have same tolerance

Alternative hypothesis

Women have higher pain tolerance than men after abdominal surgery

Since P-value is 0.02 which is less Then 0.05,

So reject the null hypothesis

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