The First Null Hypothesis
The other night a colleague joked that Shakespeare is so pervasive in modern life that he even created the first null hypothesis:
Nothing will come from nothing. -King Lear
As an aside, this led me to an entertaining study on the internet where someone undertook to find the frequency of Shakespeare's influence on titles of published academic articles.
One more side note: the null hypothesis is most often accompanied by an alternative (indeed, some schools will require it) and the formatting (per APA style) is as follows:
H01: The H is in italics, the 0 (zero) is in subscript, regular font, followed by the research question number. The formatting I like to see is the hypotheses immediately following the corresponding research questions, although some committees will ask for the research questions and hypotheses to be separated.
Nothing will come from nothing. -King Lear
As an aside, this led me to an entertaining study on the internet where someone undertook to find the frequency of Shakespeare's influence on titles of published academic articles.
One more side note: the null hypothesis is most often accompanied by an alternative (indeed, some schools will require it) and the formatting (per APA style) is as follows:
H01: The H is in italics, the 0 (zero) is in subscript, regular font, followed by the research question number. The formatting I like to see is the hypotheses immediately following the corresponding research questions, although some committees will ask for the research questions and hypotheses to be separated.
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