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More Americans struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep
Getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep every night is a struggle for most people, but even those who do may not have the best sleep.
New research from Iowa State University finds more Americans have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. The changes were independent of sleep duration, and difficulties were most prevalent in people with healthy sleep length, the findings show. The study, published in the journal Sleep Health, is one of the first to look at how multiple dimensions of sleep health change over time.
Zlatan Krizan, professor of psychology, and his research team analyzed data collected from nearly 165,000 individuals from 2013 to 2017, as part of the National Health Interview Survey. Over the course of five years, adults who reported at least one day a week with difficulty falling asleep increased by 1.43% and those reporting at least one day with trouble staying asleep increased by 2.70%. While the percentages may seem small, Krizan says based on 2018 population estimates this means as many as five million more Americans are experiencing some sleep difficulties.
"Indeed, how long we sleep is important, but how well we sleep and how we feel about our sleep is important in its own right," Krizan said. "Sleep health is a multidimensional phenomenon, so examining all the aspects of sleep is crucial for future research."
Garrett C. Hisler, Diana Muranovic, Zlatan Krizan. Changes in sleep difficulties among the U.S. population from 2013 to 2017: results from the National Health Interview Survey. Sleep Health, 2019; DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.08.008
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:57PM (8 children)
How about labor theory of value with a system that retains market dynamics? Central planning for the socialist utopia sure, for big industries--the kinds of products and services that wind up being monopolies anyway. I'm still on the idea of a more anarchist system for fostering innovation yet with small industries--the startups under capitalism.
Has anybody out there designed a simulator of exchange theory of value and capitalist forms of property that could be adapted to labor theory of value and socialist forms of property? Obviously such a simulator would need to verify the inherent contradictions of capitalism, so that with socialist economic rules it might expose inherent contradictions of socialism. Nothing is perfect, so I'd be very suspicious of not being thorough enough if there weren't inherent, systemic contradictions.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:21PM
We already have all that. The labor theory of value turned out to be worthless. The system with market dynamics turned out otherwise.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:33PM (6 children)
There's real world central planning examples. I don't know of any other sort of implementation of Marxist ideas that isn't heavily mixed with capitalism. If there's going to be a simulator, there needs to be a model of the dynamics - which frankly I think is a large part of the problem with these concepts.
But if I were to try, I suppose I'd try a simultaneous optimization problem where parties try to optimize for various economic things and see what happens. Some part would be altruists trying to optimize for societal benefit (perhaps even their perception of such) and some would be defectors (from the societal goals) trying to optimize for a variety of selfish interests (like wealth, power, etc), and see what happens. I think there would be educational systemic contradictions like the altruists faring worse than the selfish interests.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:59PM (4 children)
Your post touches what 2 points i have been thinking are key to understanding why people tend to socialism:
1> Perceived social benefit is the actual goal to be optimized, not social benefit itself.
2> It is most likely that market based selfishness has the highest global benefit but lowes perceived benefit, and why people try to go away from it.
3> It does not matter: Socialist societies will veer to Capitalism, and Capitalist societies will veer to Socialism, meaning that a meta-stability will arise in a real world, in the form of current western societies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:54PM (3 children)
Late stage socialism: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Another-SF-day-Another-assault-by-a-deranged-man-14454289.php [sfchronicle.com]
One of the most expensive places to live in the world... where you are at risk of crazed homeless people dragging you out of your car and dumping a bucket of diareah they have been storing up for weeks or months on your head. Socialism always ends in an overclass and underclass like this, as the middle class flees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:57PM
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/12/homeless-man-hollywood-dumped-bucket-diarrhea-woman-hes-back-street/ [hotair.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Wednesday November 13 2019, @05:47PM (1 child)
California? Socialist? What planet are you on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @06:45PM
LOL, nazis weren't socialist either right? They were just all about government meddling in every aspect of people's lives.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 14 2019, @02:58AM
It doesn't matter if you're Marxist, terrorist, or both, everything is capitalism [indiatimes.com] [turn off scripting]. The idealism is so 19th century.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..