In a study of academic procrastination, the authors of the paper “Correlates and Consequences of Behavioral Procrastination” (Procrastination, Current Issues and New Directions [2000]) reported that for a sample of 411 undergraduate students at a midsize public university preparing for a final exam in an introduc-

tory psychology course, the mean time spent studying for the exam was 7.74 hours and the standard deviation of study times was