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Is this considered a fine hypothesis

In desiging an experiment that tests if stress is related to headaches, would this be a fine hypothesis:

Stress and headaches are related to each other


Or, it should be more specific?

Thanks.
Original post by SWEngineer
In desiging an experiment that tests if stress is related to headaches, would this be a fine hypothesis:

Stress and headaches are related to each other


Or, it should be more specific?

Thanks.


That is pretty terrible as a hypothesis. It needs to be more like:

Stress is a cause of headaches
Stress and headaches are frequently concomitant

Or something like that.

"related to each other" means almost nothing.
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aeterno
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That makes it sound like they're long lost brothers or something :ahee:

Definitely needs to be more specific :yep:
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Dillio
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Wow, I do like the odd joke.
Awful.

You need to operationalize your variables big time.

What do you mean by stress? What kind of headaches? How are they related to each other?
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SWEngineer
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Thanks for your replies.
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Anne-marie
Ho- There is a positive association between stress levels (define elsewhere) and the occurance of headaches
H1- There is no association between levels of stress and the occurance of headaches

This way you are saying your predicting a positive association, rather than that in some way the two should be related.

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