A researcher has a questionnaire that measures how conservative or liberal one’s

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A researcher has a questionnaire that measures how conservative or liberal one’s political attitudes are and speculated that in person’s over the age of 65 years there is a direct relationship between one’s political attitude and one’s support of the death penalty for persons convicted of murder. Namely, the researcher hypothesizes that the more politically conservative senior adults will be more supportive of the death penalty. To test this hypothesis the researcher distributes two questionnaires to seniors, one about political attitudes where low scores indicate that the person has liberal attitudes and high scores indicate conservatism, and the other questionnaire measured support of the death penalty, where high scores indicate more support of the death penalty. Subjects’ Names Political Attitude Variable 1 Support of Death Penalty Variable 2 Mat 11 14 Mary 6 7 Betty 16 15 Janet 4 7 Nick 1 3 Tina 10 9 Ken 5 9 Dan 3 8 Debbie 12 9 Megan 7 6 Frank 11 13 Is this a one-tailed HA or a two-tailed HA ? one-tailed two-tailed

Explanation / Answer

We need to test the hypothesis that the more politically conservative senior adults will be more supportive of the death penalty. So basically we need to test whether these two variables are positively correlated with each other or not.

Hence,

This will be a one tailed Ha.

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