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'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems?
An anonymous reader writes "CBC news reports that the effectiveness of 'sleeping on it' when faced with a difficult task may have more than just anecdotal roots. 66 students were trained to perform a calculation on an eight digit number using two simple rules which would take seven steps to complete. A different method existed to perform the same calculation 'almost instantly', but was not shown to the students. After eight hours, where half the students were allowed to sleep and the other half remained awake, 60% of the rested and 22% of the wakeful students discovered the more efficient method."
Tell me what's in the US that there is not in Switzerland ?
Ah, yes.... Fat women and tasteless rednecks. But I can live without these.
Bullshit. This is bullshit, unrelated data. Human beings are as individual as snowflakes with as many variables affecting testing outcome as can be imagined. The study [i]may[/i] possible show which people's brains function in a logical, problem-solving fashion whereas the others may not. It may show how many people have the ability to understand mathematics.
It does [b]not[/b] show how many people were affected by sleep any more than how the number of leaves blown into the parking lot of the building the night before affected their testing results.
Bullshit, unrelated data.