Tuesday, January 4, 2017

1. It is possible that the student continues to fall asleep during class because he works a graveyard shift, then must make sure his younger siblings get up and go to school.

2. Test

a.     I would test this hypothesis by having the student sleep a few hours before work and ask him to take a nap on his break. I would ask him to pre-make breakfast for his younger siblings at the beginning of the week and have them get ready for school the night before. By adding these steps to enable him more sleep, I could to figure out if his working the graveyard shift and attending to his younger siblings is having an impact on the student falling asleep in class.

b.    If the student follows my directions to ensure he gets the maximum sleep for a couple of weeks, then stays awake during class, this test indicates that my hypothesis of lacking sleep due to his prior obligations could be possible.

c.     If the student follows my directions to ensure he gets the maximum sleep for a couple of weeks, then continues to fall asleep during class, this test indicates that my hypothesis of lacking sleep due to his prior obligations may result in failing to reject the hypothesis.

3.  An untestable explanation that would not be classified as a scientific hypothesis would be if he has a rare form of sleep apnea, which is called central sleep apnea. With this type of sleep apnea, it is hard to detect and may cause the brain to not send the adequate indicators to the body, thus causing the person to fall asleep at any given time. It would be hard to detect this form of sleep apnea.