From the article: "If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m." This loo

From the article: "If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m." This looks compelling at first but how many people are really making any considerable decisions on an empty stomach before lunch? Everyone at my company sets up meetings earlier (9 or 10am) or after lunch because they know how they are when they are hungry and/or thinking about their lunch break. How many people are actually subject to this effect on a given day and how many are making important decisions at that time? There are a lot of aspects to our daily life that could be under this effect without us observing them individually or as a whole as "minor chaos". Automobile drivers could be more aggressive and dangerous when hungry. "the highest percentage of them (crashes) occurring between 6-9pm -- evening rush hour. Commuters rush home daily to eat, spend time with their families, watch television and/or get to work on a second job." [1] and "Nationwide, 49% of fatal crashes happen at night, with a fatality rate per mile of travel about three times as high as daytime hours." [2] Perhaps this effect is causing more automobile crashes but as individuals we chalk it up to people just wanting to get home under their own free will (because we all want to get home after work for a variety of reasons). Or we've just become accustomed to how evening rush hour is and we don't observe it as a more chaotic event affected by psychology. Separately, why is "minor chaos" necessary to prove the data? This is just the author's parameters. Even though what the judges do is messed up in the hungry situation, it doesn't cause minor chaos and they're making substantial decisions. And the aggregation of this effect could be minor chaos but still not readily observable as the author suggests. So to the author's key argument about minor chaos - if this effect has always been around then what we know about our daily life might not have attributable and observable chaos even though it does. Or the chaos might not even exist because the number of people truly affected is very small on a daily basis. [1] https://coverhound.com/blog/post/what-time-of-day-do-most-accidents-occur https://coverhound.com/blog/post/what-time-of-day-do-most-ac... [2] https://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/car-accident-times-forbeslife-cx_he_0121driving.html https://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/car-accident-times-forbesl...