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Calculate When You Are Most Awake
cjellibebi writes "Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired. Using their website, you can work out your alertness profile for any given day. It is also discussed on this BBC News article."
for on-the-job sleepiness when you finish the questions?
:-|
"A nap combined with 2 Pro Plus tablets will temporarily alleviate tiredness."
I don't trust a "scientific method" that ends with a sales pitch.
but there was no way to put in my real sleep schedule.
I work 3rd shift (1 am - 9 am), so most days, I end up sleeping from 2 pm - 10 pm.
The poll also found that men and women experience tiredness differently. Some 64% of women said they become irritable when tired. Men said they make more mistakes.
But, um, isn't that just the usual gender stereotype (it might have some truth to it, I'm not judging)? Women being more aware of their emotions while men are more performance driven?
Next thing you know, they notice alcohol affects men and women differently: men can't change tires, while women can't find their eyeliner in their purse.
Problem is, it's not necessarily even true.
They might suffer from some sort of post-viral illness, they might be in shock, they might be depressed, or one of many other reasons.
I find the advice about taking pep pills to be particularly poor, when one considers these other reasons for fatigue.
Apparently they're using some sort of new-fangled time system where hours have more than 60 minutes. The results came out as:
"You will start to feel noticeably tired at 15:60 and you will feel most tired at 17:60"
15:60? 17:60?
Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired.
Funny, when you go to the website, you tell them when you sleep, when you are tired, when you feel awake, and then they graph your answers out. Ummmmm....that is truly amaaaaazing.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Where neoliberal propaganda urges us to push ourselves ever harder, even to the point where we are supposed to be concerned about how alert we are at every waking moment.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
I like this site. What time do you go to bed and wake up? Are you a morning person or a night owl? When do you feel most alert? How easily do you wake up in the morning? How well do you sleep? etc.
Sort of like asking what card you are holding before before magically guessing what card you picked.
After asking all that, they draw a line graph that matches your answers. I didn't go on to the recommendation page, so I didn't get to see how many no-doze I need to take a day to be 'normal'.
I go to bed at 4:30AM and get up at 2:00PM. First problem, that's not an available choice. On exceptional days, I go to bed at 2:30AM and get up at 12:30 noon, that was available, so that's what I picked. It asked me when I feel most awake or something like that. One choice was 11AM to 5PM, the other from 5PM to 11PM or something. Well, I obviously don't feel most awake at 11AM. So I ended up picking 5PM to 11PM.
Net result? I will start to feel tired at 5:30PM. I will feel most tired at 5:30PM.
What the hell?