Question

If a study does not have a hypotheses, but has a research question, can you still have a statistical significance and still fail to reject or reject?

Answer 1

If a study dies not have hypotheses, but has a research question alone, there is no point of statistical significance or failing to reject or rejecting, because these terms are usedin context of hypotheses only.

For example :

Null hypothesis: There is no difference in heights of two groups.

Alternative hypothesis: There is difference in heights ofvtwo groups.

Here we will either reject null hypothesis in favour of alternative OR fail to reject null hypothesis.

If hypothesis itself are not there, what will we reject or not reject.