How do I make this into an hypothesis?

Question

If a student is more motivated to go to college for the initiative of learning or for higher salary purposes.

I believe that more students will be going for salary purposes, but I don't know how to put that in the right hypothesis form..

Helppppppppp.........

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to simply assert that the desire to make money is the biggest reason students go back to school.
Consider this: there is a growing trend of older adults to go back to school later in life. They are not signing up for lofty intellectual programs. They are going for technical degrees they can use to get a good job. Statistically, intellectual programs are filled up with students who are wealthy to begin with. Most middle or working-class students are going into science, math, or medical programs.

Answer 2

"Hypothesis development

A hypothesis is a suggested explanation of a phenomenon, or alternately a reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between or among a set of phenomena."

From the free, online encyclopedia, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Hypothesis_development

Examples from this web site:
"Linus Pauling proposed that DNA was a triple helix. Francis Crick and James Watson learned of Pauling's hypothesis, understood from existing data that Pauling was wrong and realized that Pauling would soon realize his mistake. So the race was on to figure out the correct structure. Except that Pauling did not realize at the time that he was in a race!"

"Einstein's theory of General Relativity makes several specific predictions about the observable structure of space-time, such as a prediction that light bends in a gravitational field and that the amount of bending depends in a precise way on the strength of that gravitational field. Arthur Eddington's observations made during a 1919 solar eclipse supported General Relativity rather than Newtonian gravitation."

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You might, then, make a hypothesis that looks like this:
"A majority of students going to college will rank higher salary upon graduation above the opportunity of learning new information"

You, of course, would need to support your hypothesis with data, for example, the results of a survey which you design and have college students complete. You would need to get enough statistically significant responses to draw a conclussion.

The survey should offer students more than two choices and be carefully worded so as not to bias the answers...

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

There are several ways to state your hypothesis:

H0, the "Null Hypothesis": There is no significant difference between (1) the number of students motivated to go to college for the purpose of learning, and (2) the number of students movitated by the prospect of higher salaries.

H1, Research Hypothesis #1: The number of students motivated by the prospect of higher salaries is significantly higher than the number motivated by learning.

H2, Research Hypotesis #2: The number of students motivated by the love of learning is significantly higher than the number motivated by the prospect of higher salaries.

You can do variations of wording on these, but these will give you the idea. Good luck.

Answer 4

Students go to collegee for 2 reasons:

1 for higher salary purposes.
2 for the initiative of learning

Your hypothesis is:
1 is more relevant... or more common or wathever.
Then you go and design a questionary with those 2 reasons and others as well, and find out... ask a lot of college students... see if you can prove it

Answer 5

How about:

Because substantial statistically evidence shows that people that have attained college degrees earn (suchandsuch)% more than those with only a high school diploma over their lifetime, it is obvious to conclude that students are more motivated to go to college for the purposes of attaining a higher salary.

The bogus statistic I threw in there is just an example. Use an actual statistic something close to that and you should be set. From there, the rest of your paper will just be other evidence supporting how and why people are aware that a degree means more money and how and why they are more interested in monetary gain as opposed to intellectual gain.

Good luck!

Answer 6

A higher salary is the primary motivation for students to attend college.

Answer 7

ive always learned that a hypothesis was an "if when then" statement. so it would be...

IF a student is motivated THEN he/she will learn higher salary purposes WHEN he/she goes to college.

Answer 8

a hypothesis is an "if" "then' statement, so you could say:Iif a student believes they will get a higher salary, then they will be more likely to attend college."