{"id":34816,"date":"2023-09-28T05:31:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/there-are-two-types-of-hypotheses-descriptive-and-causal-descriptive-hypotheses-address-possible-answers-to-specific-business-problems-causal-hypotheses-are-theoretical-statements-about-relation\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T05:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:31:28","slug":"there-are-two-types-of-hypotheses-descriptive-and-causal-descriptive-hypotheses-address-possible-answers-to-specific-business-problems-causal-hypotheses-are-theoretical-statements-about-relation","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/there-are-two-types-of-hypotheses-descriptive-and-causal-descriptive-hypotheses-address-possible-answers-to-specific-business-problems-causal-hypotheses-are-theoretical-statements-about-relation\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF HYPOTHESES:  DESCRIPTIVE AND CAUSAL.  DESCRIPTIVE HYPOTHESES ADDRESS POSSIBLE ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC BUSINESS PROBLEMS.  CAUSAL HYPOTHESES ARE THEORETICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">HYPOTHESES PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONSTRUCTS PICTURED IN CONCEPTUAL MODELS.&nbsp; THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF HYPOTHESES:&nbsp; DESCRIPTIVE AND CAUSAL.&nbsp; DESCRIPTIVE HYPOTHESES ADDRESS POSSIBLE ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC BUSINESS PROBLEMS.&nbsp; CAUSAL HYPOTHESES ARE THEORETICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(1).&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">BASED ON THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH QUESTION, WRITE TWO DESCRIPTIVE HYPOTHESES:&nbsp; &#8220;WHY DOES THIS RETAIL STORE ATTRACT FEWER CUSTOMERS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 30 THAN WE ANTICIPATED?&#8221;&nbsp; (50 POINTS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(2).&nbsp; &nbsp; CAUSAL HYPOTHESES HELP BUSINESSES UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN MAKE CHANGES THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, IMPROVE AWARENESS OF NEW PRODUCTS, SERVICE QUALITY, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, LOYALTY, AND REPURCHASE.&nbsp; FOR EXAMPLE, IF RESEARCHERS WANT TO PREDICT WHO WILL ADOPT A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF EXISTING RESEARCH AND THEORY ON THIS TOPIC.&nbsp; FORMULATE FOUR (4) CAUSAL HYPOTHESES, EITHER SHOWING A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP OR A NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP IN PREDICTING WHO WILL ADOPT A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION.&nbsp; ADDITIONALLY, DRAW A CONCEPTUAL MODEL TO SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP (S).&nbsp; (50 POINTS)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYPOTHESES PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONSTRUCTS PICTURED IN CONCEPTUAL MODELS.&nbsp; THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF HYPOTHESES:&nbsp; DESCRIPTIVE AND CAUSAL.&nbsp; DESCRIPTIVE HYPOTHESES ADDRESS POSSIBLE ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC BUSINESS PROBLEMS.&nbsp; CAUSAL HYPOTHESES ARE THEORETICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES. (1).&nbsp;&nbsp;BASED ON THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH QUESTION, WRITE TWO DESCRIPTIVE HYPOTHESES:&nbsp; &#8220;WHY DOES THIS RETAIL STORE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[650],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34816"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34816"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}