Comments on: Never Enough Sleep https://www.isegoria.net/2012/02/never-enough-sleep/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2012/02/never-enough-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-3025225 Alrenous Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:43:54 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28343#comment-3025225 Until recently, no one had studied the opposite of sleep deprivation, sleep extension:

]]> By: Gwern https://www.isegoria.net/2012/02/never-enough-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-440267 Gwern Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:14:55 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28343#comment-440267 Never Enough Sleep: A Brief History of Sleep Recommendations for Children, Lisa Anne Matricciani, et al.

]]> By: Gwern https://www.isegoria.net/2012/02/never-enough-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-440243 Gwern Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:14:54 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28343#comment-440243

No matter how much sleep children are getting, it has always been assumed that they need more.

And they were probably right; there’s no reason to think sleep is just this useless or elastically small requirement, and every reason to think that modernity has been putting ever more pressure on it, with plenty of results about bad health or grades correlating with lack of sleep. This is a steady trend, so the recommendations (engaging in anchoring, I suspect) are equally steadily shifting.

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