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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by XorNot on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:11AM (#26770116)
I'm...extremely skeptical a generic "data entry job" is "high cognitive demand".

I can write new applications (atrociously) on basically no sleep, so I'm pretty skeptical "sit at this desk and enter these things" swings one way or the other (or even has much of an ability to quality check - at least the compiler will yell at me when I'm egregiously wrong).

I'd be far more interested if these people could be trusted to run heavy machinery on that schedule, or engage in a creative or hands on task like carpentry or welding. I suspect the results would be quite different.

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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by Roritharr on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:16AM (#26770142)
I just got a good laugh out of the image of a study putting sleep deprived people in charge of heavy machinery for science.
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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by data_acquired on Sunday April 11, 2021 @10:43AM (#26770660)
They're called grad students :)
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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by buu700 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @11:28AM (#26770951)
I'm...extremely skeptical a generic "data entry job" is "high cognitive demand".

Same here. While writing the GP comment, I considered using that exact example as something that I wouldn't expect to be heavily impacted by moderate sleep deprivation.

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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by hnews_account_1 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:35AM (#26770260)
You're not "economically poor". If the economically poor had such creative jobs, our economy would work very differently.
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Re:The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the U... by jhanschoo on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:52AM (#26776176)
I agree with the claim that they are sensitive to sleep deprivation, though.
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