Author: bluemana
Date Written: 7/11/2010
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/11/smart-people-sleep-late/
People that have higher intelligence quotients tend to go to sleep later than those with lower intelligence quotients. This is becuase the "smarter" tend to have a higher nocturnal activity, which means that they are more active at night, which results with them going to sleep later than other people. We are still not sure chat the exact effect of sleeping is but we have seen many bad effects of the lack of sleep such as: high blood pressure, obesity, shorter life spans and drowsiness. These are all negative effects. For example 37% of car crashes are caused by drivers that are drowny and body chemistry can be effected by even small sleeping problems. According to Juliette Faraco of Stanford University, sleep los can cause a strong need for “sleep rebound”.According to other studies, sleeping habits are also closely related to academic achievementsof students.According to another research by Satoshi Kanazawa, people with a higher IQ tend to be more of „night owls“ while peole with a lower IQ tend to have to do their work during daytime.
I personally find this interesting. I know a lot of people who really tend to be „night owls,“ like myself, but aren’t really geniuses.I guess that could be somehow related to all those hormones in a teenager’s body or also the „coolness“ of going to sleep late. It goes the samet he other way around. Some of the smartest people I know go to bed really early but I guess that might be a habit forced by the family.
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