Preference over the null hypothesis

[educational research]

Hello Everyone, 

I received a comment from a reviewer.

Why did you prefer alternative hypothesis over the null hypothesis?

I chose this unidirectional hypothesis because my literature Reviews showed positive results in previous studies.

Could there be any other explanations?

Please help me respond it.

Regards, 

Educationa...@gmail.com 

[Neeraj Kaushik]

Dear SMN

Even if the review suggests a positive relation, we shd work on the Null hypothesis which states that there is no difference between the 2 groups or there is no relation between the 2 variables.

If p<0.05 then we can conclude that there is sig diff/relation and looking at the signs of the mean scores, we can conclude about the direction.

Best wishes

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