Is there any chance I might be sleep deprived if I wake up before my alarm goes off more than 95% of the time?
I think that’s possible if you’ve woken up at about the same time every morning for a month in a row or longer, but over the past week you’ve been going to bed a couple hours later than you usually do.
Wikipedia says that this test ‘is not to assess the reaction time, but to see how many times the button is not pressed’. I never missed the button (nor did I ever press it improperly), but it still recommended that I consider medical evaluation. (My time was even worse than RomeoStevens’s, so I’m not saying that I did well if the job is to measure reaction time!)
I think that’s possible if you’ve woken up at about the same time every morning for a month in a row or longer, but over the past week you’ve been going to bed a couple hours later than you usually do.
In a different thread, the psychomotor vigilance task was mentioned as a test of sleep deprivation. Try it out.
Wikipedia says that this test ‘is not to assess the reaction time, but to see how many times the button is not pressed’. I never missed the button (nor did I ever press it improperly), but it still recommended that I consider medical evaluation. (My time was even worse than RomeoStevens’s, so I’m not saying that I did well if the job is to measure reaction time!)
Calling bullshit on that test. It says I should seek medical evaluation for testing at an average of 313. In comparison to this: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/stats.php
Are you sure it doesn’t say ‘might be suboptimal’ and ‘Consider seeking medical evaluation’?
I still consider that wildly over the top. But then again, I have an accurate model of how likely doctors are to kill me.
Details?
Robin Hanson.
Do you find it that incredible that somewhere around 10% of Internet users are severely sleep-deprived? :-)
But yeah, probably they used figures based on laboratory equipment and I guess low-end computer mice are slower than that.