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What are the similarities and differences between research questions and hypotheses? How should a researcher determine the use of a question or hypotheses?

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Some commonalities as well as differences between research questions and hypotheses are presented.

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Basically, if you have a hypothesis, it is an overarching statement about what you think will happen from your research. So, you may write something like: I hypothesize that if young women have poor self esteem they are more likely to choose spouses who are abusive.

Then, your research questions would help you prove that hypothesis. You may decide to ...

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