Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk
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#2Can't remember exact resource right now, but I've been researching sleep deprivation and related topics for a chapter in my book and apparently every hour of sleep deprivation reduces your cognitive performance by roughly 25%.
I found that rather fascinating.
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#3Good:
* The idea is pretty interesting; I feel like I'm drunk, but I'm undersleeping the last few months.
* The major reason I don't get enough sleep is that I need to binge from time to time to get things done or enjoy life. I think I'll do better if I could track my sleeping needs before I get to feel like I do now
Bad:
* TA looks like an advertisement
* The website uses words like "your workforce". I hope employers stay away from their employees sleep. What's next? Stool samples. Management in many places already likes to treat employees like lab rats or machines to be repaired.
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#4I'm a bit surprised that .08 BAC corresponds to 70% ability.
That means that in many cases, a good-but-legally-drunk driver will be vastly out-performing a terrible-but-sober driver.
I'm just glad my car will drive itself soon.
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#5I'm a bit surprised that .08 BAC corresponds to 70% ability. That means that in many cases, a good-but-legally-drunk driver will be vastly out-performing a terrible-but-sober driver. I'm just glad my car will drive itself soon.
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Re: Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk
#6Can't remember exact resource right now, but I've been researching sleep deprivation and related topics for a chapter in my book and apparently every hour of sleep deprivation reduces your cognitive performance by roughly 25%. I found that rather fascinating.
Swizec, if you are interested in additional resources for your book, I would be happy to connect you with some folks at Fatigue Science (they have a ton of data on how sleep deprivation contributes to reduced cognition and reaction time), or even hook you up with a two week trial of the Readiband for free.
Re: Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk
#7Can't remember exact resource right now, but I've been researching sleep deprivation and related topics for a chapter in my book and apparently every hour of sleep deprivation reduces your cognitive performance by roughly 25%. I found that rather fascinating.
care to elaborate on your book?
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#8(This is mainly unrelated but simply fascinating)
I came across an article on this same topic, regarding a man who after being shot in the head could no longer sleep..... and apparently lived (as a fully functioning human being??) for 40 more years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kern
The problem is that I cannot find any scholarly articles that mention him (searched on Google Scholar, do not have access to other journals) and the wikipedia article has an extreme dearth of scientific details/sources on this individual; the citations listed are mainly mass media stories.
As someone who has (mainly unsuccessfully) waged a battle against sleep almost my entire life, this story that I came across yesterday intrigued me greatly, and the lack of medical details frustrated me to no end.
Re: Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk
#9I'm a bit surprised that .08 BAC corresponds to 70% ability. That means that in many cases, a good-but-legally-drunk driver will be vastly out-performing a terrible-but-sober driver. I'm just glad my car will drive itself soon.
>That means that in many cases, a good-but-legally-drunk driver will be vastly out-performing a terrible-but-sober driver.
How do you know what percentage of ability corresponds to bad driving?
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#10Good: * The idea is pretty interesting; I feel like I'm drunk, but I'm undersleeping the last few months. * The major reason I don't get enough sleep is that I need to binge from time to time to get things done or enjoy life. I think I'll do better if I could track my sleeping needs before I get to feel like I do now Bad: * TA looks like an advertisement * The website uses words like "your workforce". I hope employer…
> I hope employers stay away from their employees sleep.
In theory it could turn out well, if it turned out that the numbers said it was better to pay people to take an hour nap in the middle of the work day.
In practice I assume it'd turn out to be more of a mandatory unpaid nap, of course.