Question

A recent study found that the death rate for people who sleep 6 to 7 hours per night is lower than the death rate for people who sleep 8 or more hours per night. The 1.1 million observations used for the study come from a random survey of Americans aged 30 to 102. Each survey respondent was tracked for 4 years. The death rate for people sleeping 7 hours was calculated as the ratio of the number of deaths over the span of the study among people sleeping 7 hours to the total number of survey respondents who slept 7 hours. The calculation was then repeated for people sleeping 6 hours, and so on. Based on this summary, would you recommend that Americans who sleep 9 hours per night consider reducing their sleep to 6 or 7 hours if they want to prolong their life? Why or why not? Explain.

Answer 1