-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Study: Night Owls May Be More Intelligent
- Thread starter entremet
- Start date
- Status
NaturalHigh
Member
Last one to post in this thread is the smartest person on GAF.
You're on!
TwEE-N-Toast
Banned
So the saying "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" was a lie?
CoffeeJanitor
Member
On average
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
Member
Explains why I have so much fucking trouble getting to bed at decent hour.
oreomunsta
Banned
Wow, usually I feel like a dumbass for staying up until 4am rather than a smartass...
loaf of bread
Member
I thought this was talking about actual night owls. As in the birds.
NaturalHigh
Member
I don't think there is such a thing as night owl the bird.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Sounds like a smart guy
I've been sleeping late since I was 10.
Honestly though, while there may be some degree of correlation I doubt this is true. Where's the study on all the intelligent, successful people who sleep on time?
I'm going to be the next Einstein guys. Just watch me unify quantum mechanics with gravity!
Honestly though, while there may be some degree of correlation I doubt this is true. Where's the study on all the intelligent, successful people who sleep on time?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
TheOohChild
Member
Me too. I was hoping owls were winged Einsteins or something.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
The very first sentence of the article is the complete inverse of the title of the thread. Come on
SilentSoldier
Member
Now my late night studying is justified. I knew it was because I was smart.
Hours Left
Member
Than I be the most smartest ever.
Feels good.
Junior Mint
Member
I actually feel more productive at night. Usually around 1-2am is my prime.
PeskyToaster
Member
Thought this was about owls. I was about to go outsmart one to prove everyone wrong.
NYCmetsfan
Banned
This is a paper from 2009
And while I'm a night owl but this study doesn't say night owls are more intelligent.
From the abstract it says intelligent people are more likely to be night owls. Not that going to bed late means your smart. They looked at the data and found people with a higher iq went to bed later. In fact the study seems to go against this being genetic. Just that higher IQs lead to 'evolutionary novel behavior'. The two are tied together not because of genetics or an inherent desire to stay up late but because they tend to find it easier to go against the evolutionary norm when it comes to sleeping.
And while I'm a night owl but this study doesn't say night owls are more intelligent.
From the abstract it says intelligent people are more likely to be night owls. Not that going to bed late means your smart. They looked at the data and found people with a higher iq went to bed later. In fact the study seems to go against this being genetic. Just that higher IQs lead to 'evolutionary novel behavior'. The two are tied together not because of genetics or an inherent desire to stay up late but because they tend to find it easier to go against the evolutionary norm when it comes to sleeping.
Boom Boom Pow
Banned
guys, staying up doesn't make you more intelligent, it's just saying intelligent people tend to be night owls.
NYCmetsfan
Banned
No, but they're limited in what they measure what they're designed to measure and tend to do very well at predicting and describing "book intelligence". There are other kinds of intelligence though, emotional, creativity, social that IQ test don't measure.
The authors are using specifically verbal intellegence which is only one aspect of intellegence and they highlight in the conclusion this is an issue and cause for further study.
Megadragon15
Member
Night owls are annoying anyways.
Subbed... I am going to make sure you all get banned and take the title for myself muhahahahahaha
Cameron122
Member
im so dumb I thought this was literally about owls
I always do my best school work during the evening hrs. During the day I don't have the focus. At night I do assignments with ease.
NobleGundam
Banned
I literally thought this thread HAD TO DO WITH ACTUAL OWLS
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Sweet
I bet you go to sleep by 10pm.
As a person who sleeps all day and stays up all night...
This explains a lot. I support this discovery 100%!
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked