Professor Jacobs believes that sleep deprivation is related to conflicts between roommates. He collects data on the number of hours of sleep and the number of conflicts for a group of college students over the course of a month. He obtains a correlation coefficient of –0.75. In the context of correlational research, which of the following is the most likely conclusion from the results of his study?

Sleep deprivation occurs when a person awake and alert before a healthy sleep. People vary with how a person needs a little sleep to ignore the sleep deprivation. Some people like older are more affected by the resistant to sleep deprivation. While others like children and young people are more vulnerable to sleep.

Some facts are related to sleep deprivation:

Sleep loss alters the normal functioning of attention and disrupts the ability to focus on a task.
Less of sleep has been implicated as playing a significant role in tragic accidents of planes, cars, buses.
Children and young are more vulnerable to the sleep de[privation.