How does sleep affect memory? To find out, eight students learned a list of 10 nonsense words. For the next 4 hours, half of them slept and half engaged in daytime activities. Then each was tested on the list. The next day everyone learned a new list. Those who had slept did daytime activities and those who were awake the day before slept for 4 hours.
Each recalled the new list. The table shows the number of words each person recalled under the two conditions.
Establish a 95 percent confidence interval about the difference between the two means, and write an interpretation that includes a statement about the fate of the null hypothesis when a =.05. (Based on a 1924 study by Jenkins and Dallenbach.)
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Asleep
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Awake
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4
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2
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3
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2
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5
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4
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3
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0
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2
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4
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4
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3
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3
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1
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6
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4
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