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Poor Grades Tied To Class Times That Don't Match Our Biological Clocks (berkeley.edu)
An anonymous reader shares a report: It may be time to tailor students' class schedules to their natural biological rhythms, according to a new study from UC Berkeley and Northeastern Illinois University. Researchers tracked the personal daily online activity profiles of nearly 15,000 college students as they logged into campus servers. After sorting the students into "night owls," "daytime finches" and "morning larks" -- based on their activities on days they were not in class -- researchers compared their class times to their academic outcomes. Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules -- say, night owls taking early morning courses -- received lower grades due to "social jet lag," a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands. "We found that the majority of students were being jet-lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly with decreased academic performance," said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.
Life isn't always about getting the schedule or job you want. Sometimes you have to suck it up and do what you need to do and stop whining about why you fail.
So we tailor their class times to their biological rhythms and they turn into adults with juvenile biological rhythms. Will they ever really grow up?
Our ancestors worked a few hours a day hunting game and then went back to doing nothing. Pretty much like most predators in the wild.
The main difference is that we today have a LOT more to spend our time and money on so we have to work more to get that shit paid. But if you consider what you really need, you'll notice that working just a few hours a day is plenty.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Years of school and the difficult exams needed to get into a "University" should have sorted all the people unable to study out.
Academic performance is something that could have been tested for well before "University".
Once accepted into university a person should be able to study at normal times of the day all over a week.
How did they pass all the exams and tests to a good national standard to get accepted into university?
Could study for years and based on merit was found to be better than most in the nation.
Get to university and is found to have a study alertness condition?
Thats the very best the entire nation could test for and was able to educate for years?
Only to get to university after all the testing and not do well the study?
The one thing every test over years should have detected well before any "University"".
Make the tests difficult again. That will find out who can study and who is ready for years of more work at university.
Who will be able to work on a thesis and show their new work on their thesis was their own.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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