Recently, students in a marketing research class were interested in the driving behavior of students. Specifically, the marketing students were interested if exceeding the speed limit was related to gender. They collected the following responses from 100 randomly selected students: The null hypothesis for the analysis is:
A) there is no relationship between gender and speeding.
B) the correlation between gender and speeding is zero.
C) as gender increases, speeding increases.
D) the mean of gender equals the mean of speeding.

Question

Recently, students in a marketing research class were interested in the driving behavior of students. Specifically, the marketing students were interested if exceeding the speed limit was related to gender. They collected the following responses from 100 randomly selected students:  The null hypothesis for the analysis is:
A) there is no relationship between gender and speeding. 
B) the correlation between gender and speeding is zero. 
C) as gender increases, speeding increases. 
D) the mean of gender equals the mean of speeding.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The null hypothesis states that there is no relationship between gender and speeding. This means that the researchers are not expecting to find any significant difference between the speeding behavior of male and female students.

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