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Night Owls Are More Intelligent

burymecloser

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Why Night Owls Are More Intelligent than Morning Larks
More intelligent people wake up late and stay up late

Net of a large number of social and demographic factors, more intelligent children grow up to be more nocturnal as adults than less intelligent children. Compared to their less intelligent counterparts, more intelligent individuals go to bed later on weeknights (when they have to get up at a certain time the next day) and on weekends (when they don’t), and they wake up later on weekdays (but not on weekends, for which the positive effect of childhood intelligence on adult nocturnality is not statistically significant).

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I have been vaguely aware of this for a while now..
 

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Is it not too small a time range?
 

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whats causing what ? because if we are more smart the more we are up at night, i guess government should put kids on nights program.
 

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So if you stay up later you'll get smarter. Makes perfect sense. :thinking:
 

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So if you stay up later you'll get smarter. Makes perfect sense. :thinking:

you'll probably read more, so of course you'll be smarter. what else can you do at night ? :shrug: except having sex. (also i live in apartment so i need to be quiet, so reading is only option)
 

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you'll probably read more, so of course you'll be smarter. what else can you do at night ? :shrug: except having sex. (also i live in apartment so i need to be quiet, so reading is only option)

I guess this is assuming you still get a decent amount of sleep, then?
 

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Hooray! I is smart person! :D

Perhaps this can be used as evidence for why school needs to be started later in the day.
 

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Rock 'n roll.

I need to send this to my mom. Told her as much 20 years ago.
 

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So if you stay up later you'll get smarter. Makes perfect sense. :thinking:

:doh:

maybe its the smart people who usually stay up later rather than people who stay up late are getting smarter?
 

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Of course we are.

We're smart enough to avoid the societal pattern set by others.
 

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What if you stay up very late, and wake up very early? Does that make a difference?
 

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that sounds very unhealthy

Haha, it probably is, but that's how I've functioned since I was 14. I also sleep twice. My schedule in high school was get up at 4:30 am, get to practice by 5:15, go to school, schedule a class where I could take a quick nap, go home around 4:00 pm, sleep from then until 10 at night, do homework until 2 am, and then take another nap.

Today I get much more sleep, probably I get up at 7 am usually, go through the day, take a long nap from 1 pm until 4 or 5, and then go to bed around 2 am.
 

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What if you stay up very late, and wake up very early? Does that make a difference?

That's a sure fire way to know if I'm happy. It means I have a job and thus have to wake up early, and it means I stay up late because I go out with friends all the time.

I call it bombie (bomb + zombie) high.
 

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I have a simple theory on why this is: a more active brain takes longer to shut down, and often doesn't want to.
 

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I was always the little kid who didn't want to go to sleep. I was up way later than was common/appropriate for young kids. Between college and intoxicants, I've come to appreciate sleep a lot more the past few years. Melatonin has helped me become a normal bedtime-type and a normal-to-late riser. I have Fridays off this trimester, and I slept a total of 10 hours last night. On days when I have 8 a.m. class, it's usually more like 1:00 to 5:30.
 
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