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 * General Question:** Is there a correlation between sleep and grades across cultures?
 * Specific Question:** Does the number of hours of sleep versus grades in each class differ between Korean and American students?


 * Keynote:**


 * Research Plan:**

1. Create a survey - [] 2. Send links to friends - more information, the better 3. Compare results.


 * Tentative Hypothesis:** Korean high school students will have less hours of sleep but better grades.


 * Reasons For Tentative Hypothesis:** There is a big stereotype regarding the academics of Asians: Asian students are very studious and usually have high grades. According to this stereotype, we assume that the high school students in Korea will have higher grades but less amounts of sleep. This is not saying that American students are less intelligent; we are just assuming that the results will show that Koreans are more dedicated to studying more than the norm.


 * Literature Reviews:**

I was very lucky to find this research article because except for the fact that the test subjects were college students, it included all the information that related to conducting our research. First of all, this research on college students regarding the relationship between sleep hours and grade point averages had a much more organized format to it than what I had imagined. The subjects were divided up into three groups, short sleepers, average sleepers and long sleepers. We had only thought of conducting research on students as a whole, but dividing up the survey takers and then analyzing the information seems to be a better way for us organize our data. The results that they got was different form what I had expected; I had thought that the less sleep, the higher grades; I was assuming that less sleep meant more studying. This research, however, got the opposite result from my hypothesis. We might have to change how we look at our question. Instead of thinking that less sleep means more studying, we should see less sleep as more of a diminishing factor.
 * 1. [|The Relationship Between Sleep Length And Grade-Point Average Among College Students - Statistical Data Included]**

As the title suggests, the article talks about how less sleep leads to lower grades. One thing that I liked about how they conducted their research was that they had a wide range of test subjects. Ranging from elementary students to high school students, students of all ages were asked to answer the questions about the amount of sleep they get and their grade point averages. What was interesting was that despite the difference in age, the students all had the same responses that lead to the same result: poor sleep equals poor grades. Some things that I had question though were things like the distinction between “lower grades” and “higher grades”. Although the article specified the percentage of people who claimed to feel groggy after sleep and those who had sleeping difficulties, the report did not specify the line between good and bad grades. However, another thing that I liked about the research was that they extended the experiment. Instead of just stopping at finding the relationship between amounts of sleep and grades, they continued on onto finding out the percentage of students who had sleeping disorders, which could be the cause for less amounts of sleep.
 * 2. [|Poor Sleep, Poor Grades]**

1. As the research will be done through surveys, it is impossible to confirm the results as true; moreover, they will be anonymous, which might lead to the possibility of survey takers submitting false information. 2. Difference in academics: different schools have different teachers, different teachers have different teaching styles and different teaching styles have different results. 3. Students who take different subjects will have different standards as well.
 * Potential Research Flaws/Problems:**

[|Research Paper] <-- It's our research paper.