The owners of the Syfy channel are interested in whether watching the Syfy channel causes people to become "geeky," and if so, whether any such effects depend on a person's gender.They hire a researcher to design and carry out the appropriate study.The researcher randomly assigns an equal number of men and women to watch 0, 3, 5, or 9 hours of the Syfy channel each week for 6 weeks.What is the research hypothesis for the main effect of gender?
A) On average, men and women are equally geeky.
B) On average, men and women differ in their geekiness levels.
C) On average, men are geekier when they watch more hours of the Syfy channel than fewer hours.
D) On average, men are geekier than women when watching fewer hours but less geeky than women when watching more hours of the Syfy channel.

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The research hypothesis for the main effect of gender is that men and women differ in their geekiness levels. This hypothesis is testing whether there is a main effect of gender, independent of the number of hours watched, on levels of geekiness.

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