Researchers wanted to see if there was a difference in the number of office workers choosing to use various seating configurations in a communal breakroom. Previous research findings on this topic were highly inconsistent.
There were three types of seating available in the breakroom:
The researchers used motion-activated video recordings of the breakroom over a five-day working week. From each day, they analysed three hours' worth of recordings from lunch breaks. They noted down the number of individual employees using each of the three seating options.
Should the hypothesis for this observation be directional or non-directional?
Explain your answer.
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