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Designing research questions and numeric hypotheses

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What does it entail to construct a numeric hypothesis? How should research questions and sub-questions be formatted?

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This library entry contains a step-by-step description of how multiple research questions and hypotheses should be constructed.

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Before constructing numeric hypotheses, a research question should be created. This makes it easier to construct a null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis or hypotheses.

Here is an example of 2 hypothetical research questions and their corresponding sub-questions:

ResQ 1: Do adolescents who feel as if their appearance deviates from dominant ideal body images of ...

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