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It has been known for a long time that early risers work less efficiently at night than night owls do. But researchers from the Higher School of Economics and Oxford University have uncovered new and distinctive features between the night activities of these two types of individuals. At night, early risers demonstrate a quicker reaction time when solving unusual attention-related tasks than night owls, but these early risers make more mistakes along the way.
Twenty-six volunteers (13 male, 13 female) with an average age of 25 participated in the study. Participants were required to stay awake for 18 hours, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., and adhere to their normal routine. At the beginning and end of their time spent awake, the participants completed an Attention Network Test (ANT) and a Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire to help assess their chronotype.
[...] Overall, the evening people turned out to be slower but more efficient compared to the early risers, according to the second ANT taken at 2:00 a.m. after 18 hours of being awake. 'On the one hand, it's known that night owls are more efficient in the late hours, but how this influences the speed and accuracy with which attention-related tasks are completed remains unclear. Our study demonstrated how night owls working late at night "sacrifice" speed for accuracy,' explained Andriy Myachykov.
Nicola L. Barclay, Andriy Myachykov. Sustained wakefulness and visual attention: moderation by chronotype. Experimental Brain Research, 2016; DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4772-8
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday December 21 2016, @07:39AM
Somewhere lost in the sands of time having morning people and evening people was a benefit to the cave-tribe. Now us later-day folks are shoehorned into modern daytime life. It is outright discrimination against us, no doubt. Why must every pre-college school, every government office, every court, and every decent job all require waking up in the damn dark? Hell, try finding a daycare that's open past 6PM.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @09:36AM
It is STILL useful to have both morning and evening people. Much of the retail jobs in america rely heavily on 'evening people' for handling the restocking, backend functions and other details of the store when the customers are away. Similiarly for convenience stores and gas stations and other all-night venues, those same people due to the prepwork for the morning rush, handling inventory deliveries so new product will be restocked and ready for refresh of the store shelves during the course of the day.
The real issue is that job pay and advancement opportunities between the job types result in the cubicle people having much better potential for economic advancement, while the majority of the retail industry has limited upward mobility for graveyard shift type jobs.
Having worked both, a half and half shift of no people and a flurry of morning people is quite nice. It gives you time to both wake up and analyze the in-store situation before distractions can reduce your efficiency on inventory management and store presentation.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @03:07PM
I thought those jobs were just for teenagers living out of their mom's basement you piece of shit. Everybody knows that teenagers sleep in because they're lazy shits who need a good beating. I can't stand this made up politically correct crap about circuitwhatsa rhythms. Bunch of leftist hogwash.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday December 21 2016, @10:47PM
You're cute! Such a cute angry little troll.
1) The "circuitswhatsa" rhythms are science and have nothing to do with political anything. NASA has studied them, and it is a matter of science, not your opinion.
2) The teenager jobs are a thing of the past. Working parents with hungry mouths now compete for those jobs, so any protestations and positions with that paradigm are simply willfully ignorant. Fast food jobs, and other such wage slave jobs, are now being filled by regular people just trying to survive. Not the teenagers you feel need a beating, happily subsidized by their parents.
3) You apparently favor the Strict Father model where everybody is guilty of something and needs to have the shit beat of them by Father. It would explain your hatred of leftists, and your predilection towards beating of teenagers you feel are lazy.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @10:34AM
Why must every pre-college school, every government office, every court, and every decent job all require waking up in the damn dark?
Because they try to be one-size-fits-all. The end result is that school doesn't even manage to be one-size-fits-most, and the quality of the education schools provide is nothing short of abysmal.