In: Statistics and Probability
a. Which hypothesis, the null or the alternative, is the status-quo hypothesis? Which is the research hypothesis?
The null hypothesis is variously referred to as the "hypothesis of no change" or the "status quo" hypothesis or the "conventional wisdom" hypothesis.
The alternative hypothesis is also called the "research hypothesis." It is the hypothesis that the researcher is trying to gather information in favor of.
So Null hypothesis is the status-quo hypothesis and Alternative hypothesis is the research hypothesis.