You Believe That Sleep Affects Memory

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You believe that sleep affects memory. Having collected data on a large number of subjects who are getting ordinary sleep, you know that the mean digit span of this population is 5.6 digits. To test your hypothesis you measure the digit span of 15 volunteers randomly selected from the population, after depriving them of one night's sleep. The results show = 4.1 and s = 1.4.