How do one tailed and two tailed hypothesis tests differ
A one tailed test is when you are testing specifically for an increase or decrease- eg whether the probability of a person buying a product has INCREASED after a marketing change
A two tailed test is when you are testing for a change (increase OR decrease)- eg whether the use of a different type of feed has affected the average weight of chickens
Because the level of significance given in a question is the probability of rejecting null hypothesis if it were true, in a two tailed test the critical region exists at both ends of the distribution curve - the total area in the critical region must equal the level of significance - so if the level of significance was 10%, the critical region at either end must be 5% so that the total probability of results being in the critical region under the null hypothesis is 10%
In a one tailed test the critical region is only at one end of the distribution curve so does not need to be divided by two
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