Your business studies lecturer has set you the following hypothesis to test, 'there will be no association between consumer socioeconomic status and level of private health insurance'. What type of hypothesis is this?
A) One tailed
B) Alternative
C) Directional
D) Two tailed

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This hypothesis is a two-tailed hypothesis because it is not specifying the direction of the relationship between consumer socioeconomic status and level of private health insurance. It is simply stating that there will be no association between the two variables. A two-tailed hypothesis allows for the possibility of observing either a positive or negative correlation between the variables, or no correlation at all.

Your Business Studies Lecturer Has Set You the Following Hypothesis