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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.