Americans getting enough sleep after all

[DesertFox]

Americans are not as sleep-deprived as they think they are and, in fact, appear to be getting more Z's these days than they got a few years ago, according to an independent analysis of government statistics.

The new findings run counter to the widespread public perception that Americans are getting less and less sleep because of increasing workplace demands and the plethora of distractions available around the clock on the Internet and cable television.

"Many Americans work too much, but most do not seem to be cutting corners on their sleep to do so," said John P. Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, who led the analysis with faculty colleague Steven Martin.

Their report, "Not So Deprived: Sleep in America, 1965-2005," scheduled for release by the university today, finds that Americans on average got 59 hours of sleep per week in 2005, the latest year for which precise statistics are available. That is three hours more than in 2000.

More (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102537_pf.html)

[PrezLeefun]

Well they didnt survey me.....

[Rhino]

[COLOR="Indigo"]Americans are not as sleep-deprived as they think they are and, in fact, appear to be getting more Z's these days than they got a few years ago...That's cuz TV sucks nowadays.

[Riverboat]

As usual, after the hoopla of some dire study warning of dire consequences if Congress doesn't DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, whatever IT is, another study comes along to debunk the earlier one. I quit reading crap like that about the same time I learned how to read. It was the time a study came out warning coffee drinkers to switch to decaf. "Eff yooooo!" I muttered as I picked up my sippy cup with the snap-tight lid.

A coupla years later, another study came out that reassured coffee drinkers that we were just kidding. Caffeinated coffee is okay, at least in moderate amounts. By then I was putting away two-three cups using one of those straws that loop and twist around and make drinking a roller-coaster adventure. I grinned with a smug, put down the paper and finished coloring my picture with my jumbo box of crayons.

Not much later, yet another study came out telling coffee drinkers that not only is drinking caffeinated coffee NOT dangerous, but they should get rid of the DECAF. "Well, well, well," I chuckled to myself, then carefully folded the newspaper and hid it behind the reading primer I was supposed to be studying. "See Dick. See Dick and his cup. What is in the cup? Is it coffee? It IS coffee! It is decaffeinated coffee because Dick takes heed of every warning published by the Science in the Public Interest Center. 'Heart attack in a cup!' says Dick as he watches Jane drink the dangerous brew."

I surreptitiously took a black marker out of my cigar box and wrote "Eff yooo!" in the margin. I never looked back.

[DesertFox]

So YOU're the brat who :flame: ... uh, never mind.