Question

John, a researcher, assesses the length of the prison sentence for physically attractive and physically unattractive defendants. He believes that attractive defendants will receive shorter prison sentences than unattractive defendants. The null hypothesis would suggest that

Answer 1

Answer:

there is no difference in the length of the prison sentence received by attractive and unattractive defendants.

Explanation:

Null hypothesis is a form of hypothesis that describes a form.of hypothesis in which there is no statistical significance between the two variables in the hypothesis.

In other words, it is a form of hypothesis that assumes that there is no relationship between the variables being considered.

Hence, in this case, the null hypothesis would suggest that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.