A psychologist wanted to investigate the effect of sleep duration on cognitive performance. She recruited 20 university students and split them into two groups. Group A slept for 8 hours, while Group B slept for only 4 hours. The next morning, all participants completed a reaction time test (measured in milliseconds).
Write a suitable directional hypothesis for this study.
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