Conclusions

(u) Summarize what you have learned in this lab about the sleep habits on a typical night of all students at your school. (There will be some repetition from what you have said earlier.) If you have any concerns about the "technical conditions" of the analysis procedures we used, state them now. In particular,

  • Validity: Do you consider the conditions necessary for the Central Limit Theorem to have been met?
  • Signficance: Is 8 hours a plausible value for the average amount of sleep on a typical night by all students at your school? Is 7 hours?
  • Confidence: What are plausible values? How do students at your school compare to the 6-6.9 hours averaged by college students overall?
  • Generalizability: Do you have any concerns about generalizing your sample results to the larger population of all students at your school?

 

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