Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @05:09AM
I usually think of early risers as being better at structured work, and late risers being better at unstructured work.
Early risers know what they want to do and they want to get going right away. Late risers don't want to repeat what has gone on before, but they need to do more thinking before they take decisive action.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday December 21 2016, @06:07AM
Yes, they do. In a militant fundamentalist fashion, armed with wholly unnatural smiles, they have an evangelical mission. Fueled by some kind of squirrel infused meth, they search for all late risers, take their covers off the bed, and forcibly bring them to the land of the awake. All while screaming their terrorist catch phrases such as, "The early bird finds the worm!", "You can't sleep all day", "How can anybody sleep on a beautiful day like this!?".
Now, I don't suggest rounding them all up and sending them to Gbay, but *something* needs to be done.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @10:11AM
"sending them to Gbay"
What is Gbay? An online site where you sell off your excess early risers? Or, did you mean Gay Bay? Or, Gitmo - shorthand for Guantanamo Bay?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:06PM
Actually "Green Bay" where everyone loves a good packer...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @05:33PM
Ah, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Appalbarry on Wednesday December 21 2016, @06:06AM
Because morning people are intensely annoying to the rest of us!
"I jog four miles each morning before work!"
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday December 21 2016, @04:47PM
Now, that? That's an advantage to being a morning person.
I respect people who exercise regularly, it's good for their bodies and their brains.
I resent people who resent people who exercise.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:19PM
I can jog four miles each afternoon before work! Except morning people won't let me come in later. People aren't resenting those who exercise, we're resenting those who force us to exercise in the morning. Not everyone can wake up that early. You're forcing us to work during our least productive hours and mandating we attempt to sleep through our most productive hours.
Then tons of those morning people say they can't get going unless they drug themselves into wakefulness (coffee) and say so with a large sense of pride. The self-denial of these people is mind-boggling. Productivity would be far better if everything ran on later schedules despite the energy of morning people as most of their energy is fake.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:30PM
All I can really say is that I acknowledge the validity of your point.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Wednesday December 21 2016, @08:44AM
The chronotype is a factor not only for work structure and performance, but also for learning. The typical adolescent is a nightowl and yet we force them to attend school early in the morning. For all you teachers out there who have to try educate 15...19 year old at 08:30, I feel your pain.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday December 21 2016, @01:16PM
LOL my son is well into his second class of the day by 8:30.
Probably this drops my latitude doxs, that around this time of year the sun is only up from 8 till 4, and the little elementary kids are at school from 8:30 to 3:30 which gives some time for the buses before and after. Why do little kids take buses? I donno. I grew up three blocks from school and my kids grew up two blocks from school. But, buses. Anyway we're told so many take buses, that they can't transport the middle and high school kids at the same time, supposedly, so the middle and high school kids have insane school hours like 7-2. Not unusual for my kids to go to school in the dark, and supposedly teens are less likely to get themselves run over than five year olds, although watching my kids space out as teens tend to do, as I did as a teen too, I wonder...
The retcon continues with the sole purpose of teen age education is sports, so getting out at 2 means plenty of time for football games and track meets even far away possibly while the sun is still up while still somehow getting home early enough to go to class at 7 the next morning, at least in theory.
When I went to basic training, my contract had a delayed entry program clause where I went to my reserve unit for almost a year first, and all they did was toss all the delayed entry soldiers into a classroom with a "drill private" recently out of basic, instructing us in all we needed to know. The point of this, is with torture levels of sleep deprivation at basic, it took two months to learn everything they teach you in basic, or it only took maybe four weekends worth of good-sleep weekends, its about the same. Its surprising really how little they teach you in basic, your general orders, ranks, something analogous to the NRA rifle or hunter ed course, a pitiful amount of first aid, "how to camp", marching, a couple trivial things. I kid you not, for reasonably smart well rested college students it takes about two minutes to learn and memorize the exact step by step order of splinting a broken leg on a reserve weekend, but at basic when you only get a couple hours of sleep if you don't have fire guard and its been that way for weeks, it takes like hours and multiple repetitions to learn simple things.
Another interesting military analogy is the absolute time of day doesn't matter for early / late risers, its all relative. In civilian life the early risers are at work by 7 and the late hung over kids at 10, and in the military the early risers get up at 3:30 and the late risers around 3:55 (or even after 4:00am, god help them) but its the same proportion of people and same general attitudes toward early/late.
I worked at an international finance company some decades ago and we all lived eastern timezone but not in eastern timezone, and that was interesting, and again the absolute time values didn't matter as much as relative.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @03:28PM
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.
Only 6 hours of sleep? Was that normal routine for all of them?
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Wednesday December 21 2016, @05:17PM
Then I worked 2nd and 3rd shift for 5 years. Now I usually go to sleep at 6AM and rise around 3PM.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday December 21 2016, @11:32PM
I'm most efficient after midnight, preferring to go to bed shortly after sunrise.
However the last year I've been experiencing depression. It helps quite a lot to be around other people, even if I don't talk to them. For example right now I'm sitting alone in a starbucks, but find the voices of other people at other tables comforting.
I just now googled "what is my chronotype test". Got a lot of hits, the one from Christian Science Monitor looked to be the most authoritative.
But I don't need a test - my night owl-ness was first identified by the maternity ward nurses in the hospital where I was born.
The article mentions that night owls tend to be more intelligent, but suffer more from depression. I have an IQ of 160, and depression is the most-prevalent symptom of my Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder.
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