Christy wants to determine the influence of sleep on academic performance. Blindly, she divides her volunteers into two groups-a control group that will sleep the standard 8 hours a night and a second group that will sleep 5 hours a night. What type of study is Christy conducting

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Christy is conducting a randomized controlled trial as she has randomly assigned her volunteers into two groups, a control and an experimental group, to compare the effects of the independent variable (sleep) on the dependent variable (academic performance). It is a controlled trial as the control group is being kept constant at 8 hours of sleep while the experimental group is being manipulated to 5 hours of sleep.

Christy Wants to Determine the Influence of Sleep on Academic