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Question 338

Clara and Tariq have carried out research into prosocial behavior as part of their studies. They investigated whether train commuters are more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant woman or to an injured person wearing a leg cast and using crutches. They used an opportunity sample of 30 participants for each condition. Each participant encountered either a pregnant confederate or an injured confederate standing near them on a busy train, and the researchers recorded whether the participant offered their seat or did not offer their seat.

Table 1 shows the number of participants who offered or did not offer their seat in each condition.

Pregnant ConfederateInjured Confederate
Number of participants who offered seat2211
Number of participants who did not offer seat819

Table 1

State a fully operationalised directional (one-tailed) hypothesis for Clara and Tariq's study.

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