A hypothesis is a tentative statement predicting a particular relationship between two or more variables. If you want to know whether or not your study requires a hypothesis‚ ask yourself these questions: Are you undertaking a quantitative study? Does your study take an experimental approach to answer questions? Are you making a prediction about the phenomenon being studied? If your answer to these questions is ’yes’‚ then you will need a hypothesis‚ but if it is ’no’ then you will need a
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How you define your worldview is how you see the world through your eyes. Everyone has a different worldview and different components to make their worldview. The three components that make up my worldview are God‚ knowledge‚ and ethics‚ because they shaped my thoughts‚ experiences‚ education‚ and my life decisions. The basic idea of whether there is a God or not is very abstract. It is impossible to prove that no God exists and it is for that reason that it is not considered a scientific concept
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COMMERCIAL STOCK FARMING IN THE KAROO BE PERFORMED IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE WAY INCORPORATING THE REHABILITATION OF DEGRADED FARMLAND? Contents Description Page Contents 2 Abstract 3 Experiment 1 : Krommelboog Farm (soil quality when using Holistic Management) 4 • Aim 4 • Hypothesis 4 • Method 4 • Results 4/5 Conclusion 5 Experiment 2 : Krommelboog Farm (water movement) 6 • Aim 6 • Water Table 6 • Conclusion 6 The process of herding and shepherding on Krommelboog Farm 7 • Aim
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Brenda Diskin Describe what your role‚ responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching/training cycle – theory assignment 1 (23/09/09) Roles‚ responsibilities and boundaries are qualities which the teacher/trainer incorporates into the teaching/training cycle; the cycle consists of identifying needs‚ planning and designing‚ delivery‚ assessment‚ and evaluation. My role as a teacher/trainer is to first identify what needs to be taught by myself so that
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Sigmund Freud to B.F. Skinner‚ everyone seems to have not only an opinion of what personality is and how it develops but also an idea as to what is the best way to measure and report their findings. In order to test their theories‚ it was necessary to formulate methods of research that were effective‚ ethical and would provide a solid foundation for future personality research.<br><br>Although both the clinical and experimental methods of personality research have lent themselves to our present day understanding
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BILINGUALISM: WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION? I had lived one of the biggest shocks in my life when I learn that I am not considered as a bilingual. I used to think that if you are studying a language and if you have perfected your knowledge and ability in all aspects of that language‚ it is inevitable that you become a bilingual. However‚ I learned to my greatest grief that that is not the case and I have learned English as a foreign language throughout all these years. I have been studying English
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Lab 017 04/02/12 Marigold Lab The Purpose of this was to analyze how the Marigold plants grew under certain conditions. The Objective was to determine the amount of growth these plants went through by measuring the changes in the selected variables. The Variables that we selected were stem length‚ root length‚ the amount of leaves that grew on a plant and the overall size of the plant measured in height. For this experiment‚ we had three test groups‚ the first two groups had five seeds and
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What affect does fertilizer have on the rate of growth in plants over a certain period of time? When tested‚ there is no affect on the growth of plants from a change of an environmental factor‚ such as an exposure to fertilizer. By changing the independent variable (whether or not the plant was planted with fertilizer)‚ you are testing to see how the dependent variable would change (the growth of plants). In order to assure that there is no experimental error‚ a control must be kept to produce the
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Hypothesis testing begins with the assumption that randomization is used to collect quantitative data about the sample and that the distribution of this data has a normal shape. Significance tests state two explanations‚ or hypotheses‚ about a parameter. One‚ called the null hypothesis‚ states that the parameter equals some value (usually 0). The other‚ called the alternative hypothesis‚ states that the parameter is greater than‚ less than or (not) equal to the value stated in the null hypothesis
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genes to adapt and change to the environment. Whole sequences of DNA would move into active genes and they were not completely random because some genes would move to a certain part of the genome multiple times to have an advantageous effect. It is as if these genes deliberately wanted to be mutated in order to survive and adapt. These active genes cut and insert themselves in new parts of the genome due to their need of survival. This was seen in one line of fruit flies as‚ a gene jumped‚ making the
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