1. It is possible that students fall asleep in the rear end of the classroom because they are far from the teacher and other students, therefore; they are not as active in socializing and participation in class
2. To prove or disprove this hypothesis, I will ask a few students in the same class to sit around the subject (who is sitting in the farthest chair from the professor) and purposely raise their hands for discussion and speak with the subject to socialize a bit. Since the people around the subject will be more lively and social, we will see if the student will still fall asleep or not. If the student fell asleep, it would prove my hypothesis to be falsified.
3. An untestable explanation would be students purposely singing the subject a lullaby to make him fall asleep.
The instructor might appreciate a more active class as well and perform better for a more animated audience. :-)
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