Hasnain says:

"“They would insist that they were fine,” said Dinges, “but weren’t performing well at all, and the discrepancy was extreme.”

This finding has been replicated many times over the intervening decades, even as many professions continue to encourage and applaud sleep deprivation. In one study published in the journal Sleep, researchers kept people just slightly sleep deprived—allowing them only six hours to sleep each night—and watched the subjects’ performance on cognitive tests plummet. The crucial finding was that throughout their time in the study, the sixers thought they were functioning perfectly well."

Posted on 2017-05-29T11:13:40+0000