Statement of the Problem
My study is whether or not there is a relationship between the average hours of sleep a student gets per night and their height. This study was chosen partially because it was assumed that most students will be able to answer the questions of “How many hours of sleep do you get every night on average?” and “What is your height?” without too much difficulty. The answers to these questions seem like they would be more widely known by the student body than such things as GPA etc, and so this will also decrease the amount of inaccurate answers and non response bias that cause discrepancies in the data.
I was interested in this topic because I’ve always been very short so I am curious if there are any other variables that affect or influence height besides genetics. I chose to compare height to hours of sleep because it is uncertain whether or not there is a relationship: there doesn’t seem like there would be one, but there definitely could be. I am ultimately trying to show that there either is or is not a relationship between height and hours of sleep for high school students.