Locate a scholarly article in a psychology journal that utilizes a hypothesis te

Question

Locate a scholarly article in a psychology journal that utilizes a hypothesis test. Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the hypothesis test

2. Discuss the hypothesis’ role in the context of the whole article (i.e., what information does it actually give, what were the results of the test).

3. Consider the following questions while you are reading the article and writing your analysis.

a. What is the research question?

b. What is the null hypothesis?

c. What is the alternative hypothesis?

d. Which test statistics was used?

e. What level of significance was used?

f. What were the calculated results?

g. What statistical conclusion was reached?

h. What was the experimental conclusion?

i. What, if any, future research was suggested?

Explanation / Answer

There was a study some time back to test the notion that full moons affect births and deaths. The article can be accessed from the link - http://www.jasnh.com/pdf/Vol11-No2-article3.pdf

1. For this study, ordinary least square regression is used to determine if there is any relationship between full moon and number of births and deaths.

2. The result of this study concludes that full moons are not associated with no. of deaths, births or conceptions.

3 a) The research question is to find if there is any association between full moons and no. of births and deaths.

b) Null hypothesis is that there is no association between occurence of full moon and no. of births and deaths.

c) Alternative hypothesis is that there is an association between occurence of full moon and no. of births and deaths.

d) Ordinary least square regression was used for the analysis

e) Level of significance used was 5%

Conclusion of the study failed to reject the null hypothesis. So there is no association beween  full moon and no. of births and deaths.

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