I think the point is that employees aren't really positioned to advocate for themselves powerfully. Official regulations can bring employers into line as far as unreasonable demands on the sleep schedules of people who do not feel that sleep deprivation is beneficial. And certainly as a consumer of medical care I hope the people working on me get the benefit of governmental intervention. This does not mean that the SWAT team is going to bust in on you if you decide not to sleep for a really long time.
In other words, you might see this as sinister governmental intervention, but very few of us have the power to hold down all of our interests. Sometimes governmental "meddling" is one of the best ways of ensuring that people don't get screwed over.
Take, for example, the policy that cuts into your ability to buy and own human slaves. Damn the government for that, right?
why not read the study and figure out what it's saying before you decide on poor anecdotal evidence that the whole thing is bullshit?
fact is that you might be right, that no matter how much you lack sleep you still know your name. but that doesn't mean that there aren't memory effects, just that the memory effects aren't so drastic that they make you forget your name. these things you list do not exhaust memory, and moreover you might be surprised if you ran a study looking at them...
there wouldn't really be a research literature on this kind of thing if it was that easy.
It helps to have some real, non-anecdotal data to back up your claims.
A lot of people think lots of things are obvious to them. Some of these things have already been proven wrong. Others haven't been tested. If we always just went with what we thought was obvious we'd end up making a really huge number of mistakes and fucking up every time we had to make a decision based on: physics, biology, psychology...
Just because your mom said it doesn't make it obvious or even true; just because you really think so doesn't make it obvious or even true. And even when something obvious gets tested and results are as expected, real scientific work is getting done - for example, when it establishes basic methods to use in making studies for comparison with that "root" study.
In short, you have no idea what you're talking about. Thank you, come again.
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I think the point is that employees aren't really positioned to advocate for themselves powerfully. Official regulations can bring employers into line as far as unreasonable demands on the sleep schedules of people who do not feel that sleep deprivation is beneficial. And certainly as a consumer of medical care I hope the people working on me get the benefit of governmental intervention. This does not mean that the SWAT team is going to bust in on you if you decide not to sleep for a really long time.
In other words, you might see this as sinister governmental intervention, but very few of us have the power to hold down all of our interests. Sometimes governmental "meddling" is one of the best ways of ensuring that people don't get screwed over.
Take, for example, the policy that cuts into your ability to buy and own human slaves. Damn the government for that, right?
why not read the study and figure out what it's saying before you decide on poor anecdotal evidence that the whole thing is bullshit?
fact is that you might be right, that no matter how much you lack sleep you still know your name. but that doesn't mean that there aren't memory effects, just that the memory effects aren't so drastic that they make you forget your name. these things you list do not exhaust memory, and moreover you might be surprised if you ran a study looking at them...
there wouldn't really be a research literature on this kind of thing if it was that easy.
It helps to have some real, non-anecdotal data to back up your claims.
A lot of people think lots of things are obvious to them. Some of these things have already been proven wrong. Others haven't been tested. If we always just went with what we thought was obvious we'd end up making a really huge number of mistakes and fucking up every time we had to make a decision based on: physics, biology, psychology...
Just because your mom said it doesn't make it obvious or even true; just because you really think so doesn't make it obvious or even true. And even when something obvious gets tested and results are as expected, real scientific work is getting done - for example, when it establishes basic methods to use in making studies for comparison with that "root" study.
In short, you have no idea what you're talking about. Thank you, come again.
That's right! They never made an N64 emulator, either...
Wait, one was made. Wake the fuck up.