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In a recent study, volunteers with eight hours of sleep were three times more likely to answer questions correctly.
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So we want to identify the sample, the population, and then a couple of things about statistics.
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So let's start with a population and the sample.
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So a population is a large group of people that you're asking questions about.
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But you can't study all of them, so from the population, you take a sample.
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And the sample is what you're actually looking at.
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The sample are the volunteers who actually were sleep deprived or had adequate sleep and then had to answer questions.
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The population is the group of people you took your sample from, and here that's really just people in general.
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So it's just people in general.
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It doesn't look like they have any kind of subset of the general population here.
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They're not looking at how mathematicians perform, for example.
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So they can apply their results on sleep deprivation to the general population...