The LessWrong Facebook group has a post “How many Less Wrongers are natural late-sleepers?” and lots of people, including myself, are. Why are so many of us natural late-sleepers? Speculation welcomed.
As of the last survey, 87% of LWers were male and 75% are 31 or younger, and I’ve read that men tend to be more owlish than women and young people tend to be more owlish than old people.
Lots of late night computer screen time? That blue light is messing with sleep cycles. I used to think I’m a night owl myself but can adjust my sleep schedule at will if I just mind the lighting. These days I wake up at 2-4am.
Curiously all males in my family used to be late sleepers when young but effortlessly switched to rising early when their careers kicked off. They didn’t have computers back then so maybe it was their social lives keeping them up late.
The LessWrong Facebook group has a post “How many Less Wrongers are natural late-sleepers?” and lots of people, including myself, are. Why are so many of us natural late-sleepers? Speculation welcomed.
As of the last survey, 87% of LWers were male and 75% are 31 or younger, and I’ve read that men tend to be more owlish than women and young people tend to be more owlish than old people.
Such an open question on FB is bound to show selection effects. Better to do a straight poll:
I prefer to go to sleep [pollid:1134]
I prefer to wake up [pollid:1135]
I have to go to sleep [pollid:1136]
I have to wake [pollid:1137]
For comparison: http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/93218/fneur-05-00081-HTML/image_m/fneur-05-00081-g001.jpg
Because they spend their nights reading LW?
Yeah. I am curious what kind of sleeper would I be in a world without internet, but I guess I will never find out.
I’m old enough to know. Even without computers, I still prefer to stay up until dawn.
Lots of late night computer screen time? That blue light is messing with sleep cycles. I used to think I’m a night owl myself but can adjust my sleep schedule at will if I just mind the lighting. These days I wake up at 2-4am.
Curiously all males in my family used to be late sleepers when young but effortlessly switched to rising early when their careers kicked off. They didn’t have computers back then so maybe it was their social lives keeping them up late.