Assignment 2 - Justin Wang Better Students are Better...

Justin Wang
Better Students are Better Sleepers
In this journal, the researchers studied the correlation between sleep and academic
success in college students. The researchers gathered information on grade-point average, sleep
quality, sleep quantity, and sleep deprivation from college students at the University of
Minnesota. They hypothesized that students with higher GPAs also slept better, more, and were
rarely deprived of sleep. They gathered this information by administering a survey to around 100
undergraduate students. The test first contained true-false questions from the Groninger Sleep
Quality Questionnaire to determine how well the participants were sleeping. Secondly, the test
contained open questions created by the researchers to determine the participant’s amount of
sleep and number of “all-nighters.” Lastly, the test contained questions assessing the GPA of
students.
After analyzing the data from the surveys, the researchers discovered that their