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Re:Tired of Being Tired by stephen789 on Saturday October 15, 2011 @10:16PM (#3116339)
What are your metrics for this kinda thing?

Tiredness and productivity seem like very subjective things, hard to measure. Don't get me wrong, there's some good points there, that aren't hard to believe. But i'd love to know how i can measure this kind of well being stuff so i can better myself.

* as the saying goes, "what gets measured is what gets improved"

Re:Tired of Being Tired by jacques_chester on Saturday October 15, 2011 @10:40PM (#3116375)
I believe that NASA and aviation researchers developed fatigue tests some time ago. There's also discrimination-timing tests.

For example, if the object on the screen is a blue circle, press the right side shift; if it's a red square press left side. Reaction time is used as the indicator.

But these are only proxies for what is, after all, a largely subjective experience. You will necessarily need to rely on measuring inputs (hours of sleep, caffeine consumed, exercise length and intensity) and using subjective measures for outputs (a bit slow, tired, very tired, exhausted).