Fourth, a hypothesis should be brief and to the point. You want your hypothesis to describe the relationship between variables in a declarative form and to be as direct and explicit as possible. The more to the point it is, the easier it will be for others (such as your master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation committee members!) to read your research and understand exactly what you are hypothesizing and what the important variables are. In fact, when people read and evaluate research (as you will learn more about later in this chapter), the first thing many of them do is find the hypotheses
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