Birds of paradise are beautiful birds often with spectacularly long tails. The male birds will often dance in open spaces known as a lek to attract females. A researcher watched the displays correlated the length of the male birds tails to successful mating.
1. What is the dependent variable in the experiment?
2. What is the independent variable in this experiment?
3. What is a reasonable alternate hypothesis for his experiment?
4. What is a reasonable Null hypothesis?
1. What is the dependent variable in the experiment?
length of the male birds tails
The dependent variable is what is being studied and measured in the experiment.
2. What is the independent variable in this experiment?
Successful mating, independent variable is a variable affects the dependent variable
3. What is a reasonable alternate hypothesis for his experiment?
The length of the male birds tails correlates to the successful mating
4. What is a reasonable Null hypothesis?
The length of the male birds tails does not correlates to the successful mating
Birds of paradise are beautiful birds often with spectacularly long tails. The male birds will often...
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