Finally, there was evidence that the threat of the stereotype pressured a search for excuses, a search for something other than oneself to blame poor performance on. We asked participants how much sleep they’d gotten the night before the experiment. Black students expecting to take the ability test, reported getting fewer hours of sleep than black students expecting to do a nonability task, and fewer hours of sleep than whites with either expectation.
Same experiment risk here too. Have to think they thought of this but why isn’t it called out in the text?
