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I'm amazed by how thoroughly he wrote up the experiment.

• pstuart 6y ago
  yeah, with a sample size of 1 and the subject at a prime point in maturation. What's the lesson learned from this? Disclaimer: this experiment would destroy me (but I'm old enough to be the author's father).
  • icelancer 6y ago
    > What's the lesson learned from this? That sleep is complicated, and that people doing scientific case studies contributes to the overall corpus of material we have to inspire others. There need not be a breakthrough everytime you do a case study for science to be useful and we should stop expecting that.
    • pstuart 6y ago
      I understand that sleep is complicated, and also that there's a wide variance in how people respond to sleep (and lack of same). I wasn't trying to shit on the OP, just that this made it to the front page of HN and has no takeaway from it. All I learned is some 22 year old guy was able to function fine on minimal sleep. Did I miss something else? I'm genuinely curious because this is actually a subject of great interest to me.
  • virgil_disgr4ce 6y ago
    Haha, this is exactly what I was thinking reading this. I'm a single parent of 2 kids and the sleep-related impact on my cognitive ability is, uh, marked ;)
  • jjdredd 6y ago
    Even 1-2 days of bad sleep (< 6 hrs) would destroy me either now or back when I was 20.
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