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This is really slick. And I'm stunned that 1 out of 3 Americans is sleeping until 8 am. I never would have expected that.

kjdal2001 11y ago
Stunned that its that high, or that its that low?
- silverbax88 11y ago
  Well, I'm just going off of my gut, not real data. But I would have thought 33% of Americans still being in bed at 8am would be high. Of course, the service industry has more flexible schedules - but over the course of the day, by 11pm most people are in bed and by 2 am it looks like just about everybody is asleep. I don't really have deeper insight other than I expected it to be either most people would be up by 7am or more distributed over the course of the day. At noon, only 3% of Americans are asleep.
  - kjdal2001 11y ago
    Yeah, I also felt that it was high, but the more I think about it the more reasonable it seems. I might have missed it, but I didn't see anything about what day of the week the data was gathered from. If its a mix of both weekend and weekdays, then the wakeup times could end up being an average that isn't really representative of any particular day. I also think that the location can play a large part. I typically get out of bed a bit after 7 during the week, but I am in the Central time zone, so someone with a similar job on the east coast might get up an hour later.
Mathnerd314 11y ago
There's a significant time zone effect: http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~magibson/pdfs/sleep_productivity.pdf http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~magibson/pdfs/sleep_productivity.pd...
howeyc 11y ago
Ya, but once you realize the labor participation rate is under 70% it makes sense that a 3rd of America may sleep that late. Not everyone that participates has a 9-5 job.
- silverbax88 11y ago
  I thought that, too, but by noon only 3% of Americans are asleep. By 11 pm most of Americans are asleep. So almost everyone is on roughly the same schedule. No deep analysis from me, just interesting data.

kjdal2001 11y ago

Stunned that its that high, or that its that low?

silverbax88 11y ago
Well, I'm just going off of my gut, not real data. But I would have thought 33% of Americans still being in bed at 8am would be high. Of course, the service industry has more flexible schedules - but over the course of the day, by 11pm most people are in bed and by 2 am it looks like just about everybody is asleep. I don't really have deeper insight other than I expected it to be either most people would be up by 7am or more distributed over the course of the day. At noon, only 3% of Americans are asleep.
- kjdal2001 11y ago
  Yeah, I also felt that it was high, but the more I think about it the more reasonable it seems. I might have missed it, but I didn't see anything about what day of the week the data was gathered from. If its a mix of both weekend and weekdays, then the wakeup times could end up being an average that isn't really representative of any particular day. I also think that the location can play a large part. I typically get out of bed a bit after 7 during the week, but I am in the Central time zone, so someone with a similar job on the east coast might get up an hour later.

Mathnerd314 11y ago

There's a significant time zone effect: http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~magibson/pdfs/sleep_productivity.pdf http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~magibson/pdfs/sleep_productivity.pd...

howeyc 11y ago

Ya, but once you realize the labor participation rate is under 70% it makes sense that a 3rd of America may sleep that late. Not everyone that participates has a 9-5 job.

silverbax88 11y ago
I thought that, too, but by noon only 3% of Americans are asleep. By 11 pm most of Americans are asleep. So almost everyone is on roughly the same schedule. No deep analysis from me, just interesting data.