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Night Owls Stay Alert Longer than Early Birds
- apu 18y agoIt's hard to take this article seriously when the authors of the study make statements like this: Peigneux said this information could be useful in job decisions: 'If you have a night job, it's better to be an evening person,' he said.
- sketerpot 18y agoIf you're a scientist and a reporter presses you to speculate on how your research could be useful, are you going to just refuse? Mainstream science journalism taints everything it touches. The scientists who did the research aren't necessarily at fault for this.
- jpwagner 18y agoIs this a thought-exercise in confounding factors?!
- tokenadult 18y agoThe obligatory link for any discussion of a report on a research result like that is the article by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research. http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html Check each news story you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the story.
- ars 18y agoVery poor research. Where is the data after 4-5 hours? I bet the early person does better then. It's not that night owls have overall better concentration - it's that they concentrate better at the end and the early birds do better earlier.