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IB analysts are not dumb - they put up with this because the worst of it only lasts for a few years, and on the other side are huge riches.

• impossiblefork 2y ago
  If they work long nights, they will be dumb eventually. Permanent stupidity can be induced by a relatively a short period of sleep deprivation.
  • somastoma 2y ago
    Umm, proof?
    • impossiblefork 2y ago
      I don't have that, I should probably have been clearer that this was my own observation and view, but I felt that there was something that happened when a particular highschooler failsed to sleep and stayed up using caffeine pills and I feel that it made the person more rigid, less creative, something like that; and then I saw others who were on the other end of the spectrum, whose parents made sure that they slept, and they were just smarter. I have no data, no scientific studies. It's just that I don't see how it can be any other way. Alternatively, maybe caffeine and other stimulants decrease creativity and lead to what I felt became stupidity.