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A) This is probably casual, because sleep is good B) The most interesting part is that sleep the night before exams wasn’t associated with any change to grades.
by topkai22 5y ago
A) This is probably casual, because sleep is good
B) The most interesting part is that sleep the night before exams wasn’t associated with any change to grades. This actually suggests to me that sleep in and of itself is less casual and more correlated to general lifestyle choices. I recall my college freshman year in particular to be full of temptations and distractions.
- jvanderbot 5y agoMy take is that sleep the night before doesn't help you a whole bunch, or not nearly as much as sleep while you are learning the material. (i.e., consistent, quality sleep leading up to exams).
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoIt could still be correlative; 'lifestyle choices' are basically the definition of correlation not causation. Or were you being sarcastic? For another (probably unhelpful) anecdote, got great grades in my senior year of college when I had a scholarship. One semester in my junior year I took 18 credits and also worked 32 hours a week through a 45-minute-one-way commute...I got very little sleep and my grades suffered for it. The primary things I learned that year were (1) don't over-commit yourself, (2) make a schedule and stick to it if you need to get the bare minimum done and don't have time to do everything, (3) you don't actually have to attend every lecture or turn in/complete every assignment to pass a class, (4) long commutes suck, and (5) a little bit of VHDL syntax stuck around was about the only thing I learned in those classes. My bad grades were not caused by poor sleep, poor sleep was a side effect of a larger issue (namely, the perpetual problem of money).