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Re:Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Develope... by chasd00 on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:48AM (#19757399)
i use to think this way too.

When i was HS living out in the countryside of North Texas the father of a friend of mine would take me hunting and target shooting a lot. He said he did an experiment once where he shot 3 groups of 5 shots then measured his precision and accuracy. Next, he drank a beer (i know, not the wisest thing to do) then repeated the shooting exercise. He did this for a few iterations and his conclusion was that it didn't matter that he didn't feel the effects of the alcohol right away, his shooting steadily declined on each iteration.

I think sleep is the same way, whether or not you immediately notice you're not getting enough sleep your performance steadily declines.

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Re:Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Develope... by dsfyu404ed on Friday April 26, 2019 @03:19PM (#19760925)
But your body doesn't absorb the alcohol instantly. Those test results make no sense from a medical standpoint. There should be a lag between drinking and the performance hit.
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Re:Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Develope... by dragonwriter on Friday April 26, 2019 @03:50PM (#19761169)
> But your body doesn't absorb the alcohol instantly

Yes, it does. I mean, it takes time to fully absorb it, but alcohol begins entering the bloodstream immediately when reaching the stomach, it is not digested.

Rapidity of effect will vary by a lot of personal and other factors.

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Re:Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Develope... by dsfyu404ed on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:24PM (#19761424)
Yes but the difference between 0 and 1, possibly even 2 beers is going to be below the noise threshold for normal values of "beer".
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Re:Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Develope... by dragonwriter on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:34PM (#19761496)
> Yes but the difference between 0 and 1, possibly even 2 beers is going to be below the noise threshold for normal values of "beer"

In terms of feeling? Maybe. In terms of measurable effects on motor skills, probably not. They start much earlier (both in time from drinking and quantity of drinking) than people tend to think, or even recognize at the time if they aren't actually measuring them.

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