September 2013
Beginner
320 pages
6h 20m
English
In impairment terms, averaging four to five hours of sleep a night is equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of 0.1 per cent – the same as downing four bottles of beer.
Michael Christian of the University of North Carolina and Aleksander Ellis of the University of Arizona have demonstrated that not only does sleep deprivation lead to poor performance on any task that requires ‘innovative thinking, risk analysis and strategic planning’ but it also leads to more unethical behaviour in the workplace. Using research on nurses at a large medical centre and undergraduate students ...
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