I have been asked to come up with a research question in psychological statistics.
Can you help me get started by clarifying some of the expectations of the paper.
What is a null or alternative hypothesis?
Should I choose a qualitative or quantitive design? Why would I choose one of the other?
What is the difference between descriptive, correlational or experimental designs? Why?
What would be an example of a varible for this study that could be measured on a nominal scale, ordinal scale, or ratio scale?
Once I've collected all the data would I use inferential or descriptive statistics and why? I need to create a sample frequency distribution for one the variables.