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Computer Programmers Only the 5th Most Sleep Deprived Profession

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-the-sun's-fault-for-coming-out-before-noon dept.

garthsundem writes "As described in the NY Times Economix blog, the mattress chain Sleepy's analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey to find the ten most sleep deprived professions. In order, they are: Home Health Aides, Lawyer, Police Officers, Doctors/Paramedics, Tie: (Economists, Social Workers, Computer Programmers), Financial Analysts, Plant Operators (undefined, but we assume 'factory' and not 'Audrey II'), and Secretaries."

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  1. I wonder... by hvm2hvm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder why the secretaries can't get any sleep... *wink* *wink*

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  2. 17 minutes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because we sleep 17 minutes less than Forestry workers? 17 lousy minutes? I sleep longer than that in crummy meetings.

  3. 7 hours is sleep deprived? by Missing.Matter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at the most well rested and least, there's only a difference of like 4 minutes. Really, 4 minutes makes the difference between a good night's rest and being "sleep deprived?"

    1. Re:7 hours is sleep deprived? by ironjaw33 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Looking at the most well rested and least, there's only a difference of like 4 minutes. Really, 4 minutes makes the difference between a good night's rest and being "sleep deprived?"

      They don't show the standard deviation either, which could be huge.

  4. 7h3m vs. 6h57m by Rene+S.+Hollan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think that three minutes really makes that much of a difference between first and fifth place, when it represents less than one percent of the mean of those two points.

    More surprising is that they think programmers get anywhere near 7 hours sleep a night: I average 5 Sunday to Friday, and 10 each on Friday and Saturday, for an average of 6h26m. In my youth, I got a LOT less (working 100 hour weeks was not unusual).

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  5. Re:Issue for me is pattern recognition. by dougisfunny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a hyphen in obsessive compulsive disorder? >.>

    You should go check.... three times.

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  6. Re:Issue for me is pattern recognition. by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmmm... ... maybe you can't sleep because you stay up all night trying to perfect looping ocean sound tracks.

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  7. Re:Issue for me is pattern recognition. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps somebody can explain to me why the notion that "a bunch of external noises keeps people awake" seems to be such a fucking revelation to slashdot readers?

    I mean... how is this even a thing? News flash: LOUD (relative to ambient) NOISES WHILE YOU TRY TO SLEEP TENDS TO WAKE YOU UP. It doesn't mean your brain is "super extra powerful" or that you're "super mega ultra sensitive to patterns as a result of your intense brainpower."

    It means that:
    1) You probably have atrocious sleep hygiene, and don't reserve the bed for sleeping and fucking;
    2) You probably sit up until very late with an LCD screen shining in your face, playing games, watching porn, watching movies or tv shows, etc., the result being that you arrive at bedtime in a fairly excited, wide awake, "daylight" mindframe;
    3) You probably don't give yourself a reasonable amount of time to sleep - i.e., going to bed at 1 am, knowing you have to wake up a 6:30;
    4) You are probably fairly sedentary, a bit overweight, and suffer from mild sleep apnea which disrupts your sleep patterns;

    Fix those, then let's talk about how you all have a special secret ability that only engineers of your massive intellect and vast mental capacity could attain.