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A resounding "Duh" echoes out from the gaming populace.
I lie in my bed while I play games, though. So I probably get more. Also, since I'm on holidays and currently jobless, I have infinite time to sleep during the day. I spend my summers being nocturnal. | |
Who needs sleep when you can play games! You can sleep when you're dead. | |
Since I only go into school tomorrow and that's it, I can have a lot more lie-ins, so that point may be proven wrong over the next 11 weeks. | |
7 hours a week? Thats awfully low, more than an hour a day of gaming means that we are excessive. | |
In other news people with hobbies don't get as much sleep as those without hobbies. I find that the source of this problem is time. A lot of "excessive" gamers have lives now that we have to manage. We have work to do and not a whole lot of time to dedicate to our hobbies and passions unless we get to do them for our career which is a very small group. So to enjoy our passion something has to give and just like any other american sleep is something we throw away because we cannot reduce our work hours for equal pay. | |
Interesting. I spend more than seven hours playing my games, but I manage to get my eight hours of sleep and wake up refreshed. What would that be categorized as? | |
7 hours a week! HAHAHAHA I can manage that in a day. | |
"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death." If only I'd been able to work that quote into this story... | |
Sleeping hygiene? | |
Yeah. By that definition, my mom who works on the computer a lot (she's a teacher, so she has to type in everything into Word, write about every stupid kid something...) and often 2-3 hours a day every day is super-addicted. 6 a day is excessive. 7 a week? Never. That's as casual as it's going to be. | |
i heard that, my past week i've been gaming 10 hours a day because i've not gamed in a while and i get more sleep than most people! | |
An hour a day is excessive? What's casual then? 15 minutes? I was first just going to post "Well duh", but the numbers don't make sense to me. One hour of gaming wouldn't even be a dent in the more productive things I could have done in the other 23, and I have a job to consider in all of it as well. | |
Ahh Sick. I was wondering when I could get a high score in the Epworth Sleepiness Scale! Awesome! But seriously I love it when people release these studies that recieve a resounding "D'Uh" from everyone. | |
Oh, so that's why I'm always tired... | |
New study: The sky is blue Thankyou, Captain Obvious'. | |
REALLY? Uhh, yeah did they really conduct a study to prove something that a 5 year old could've told them? | |
We can all manage that. Its fantastic. As someone already said, you can sleep when you're dead (not me, i'll be too busy playing mass effect 2. Even if i am a zombie) | |
How is this news... why is someone spending time and money on this. You know what this is why the US is in dept fucking stupid R&D projects on humans! | |
zzzzzzzzzzzzz sorry, was catching up on a bit of sleep there... what's this thread about? | |
In other news: Pope still Catholic; bears do shit in the woods. | |
I would've thought that would be obvious. | |
I can't believe people put money into studies which are bloody obvious. 7 hours a week does seem an strange number, since most people I know get through that in a day. | |
7 hours a week is excessive? Damn I must be an addict ten fold then. | |
Sleep is just a sign of not enough caffeine. And seriously, 7 hours a week is excessive??? Are we going to look at drivers, doctors, checkout assistants, teachers etc. that spend more than 7 hours a day on their chosen pastime? | |
Yeah, this is totally true. I only get 8 to 12 hours of sleep a day, which is most certainly not enough sleep. need 14-16 imho. | |
Yeah that confused me aswell...does it mean that players also neglect their hygiene due to lack of sleep, or that lack of sleep makes them dirty? I'd go with the former...but even then, I'm probably in the seven hour plus a day category and I still have time for basic cleanliness. | |
Despite all the "duh" comments, this study actually has some interesting implications. Assuming that most people have some hobby or entertainment activity outside of work, what this study suggests is that gaming is uniquely engaging to players. Apparently all those non-gamers are so incredibly bored with their bland existences that they would rather sleep. For them, watching TV, making bridges out of toothpicks, polishing their coin collection, or whatever else they do just isn't enough fun to keep them awake at night. It seems to me this study is a big pat on the back to game developers as a whole: they have created products so awesome that their customers literally loose sleep over it. | |
To be honest what Einstien created this study isin't it so damn obvious? | |
i don't need sleep, and when Diablo 3 comes out i know not gonna be sleeping much | |
Heh, shit. I sit here at 5.35 am in Sydney, the day before an end of session test, reading this. Still. Sleep isn't just lost to games. We are merely conditioned for gross overextension while still functioning at a capable level. Hell, I can function on 4 hours of sleep per night for a week if I need to (comes in handy for finishing assignments and whatnot). I only game all night once or twice every few months (Wee, Twilight Princess in 2 days). | |
Do you think that scientists research these things because they can't be bothered to do something more difficult that might actually require alot of work. Bleedin obvious studies are always coming out like this, maybe they should do a study on how lazy researchers are. | |
Well... the best reply to this one would be: "No shit, Sherlock". Did you seriously need a study to show that when people play games they'll probably stay up even a whole night if the game itself is imersive, fun, cool etc...Why do people even bother studying something that's, you know, ALREADY KNOWN?! | |
Jobless? I kid, I kid. | |
7 hours a week is ridiculous to define as excessive. Therefore this whole study is shite to me. | |
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Study Says Gamers Get Less Sleep Than Others
New research from the University of Arkansas says that self-identified "excessive" gamers get less sleep and suffer from poor sleep hygiene compared to non or "casual" gamers.
It doesn't take the kind of person who has ever passed out in the middle of the day thanks to a marathon Diablo II session the night before to know that gamers sometimes get less sleep than other, "normal" people. Because really, when you just have a feeling that Andariel is totally going to drop a Stone of Jordan, who needs to sleep?
Well it might not just be a difference between people who play games and people who don't. A new study from the University of Arkansas argues that people who specifically identify themselves as "excessive" gamers get less sleep than so-called casual and non-gamers alike.
So what constitutes being an "excessive gamer?" Well, by the study's standards, anyone who plays more than seven hours a week and who identify themselves as addicted to games (people are admitting to this without qualms, apparently) could be considered excessive gamers.
"Our statistics revealed that those who admitted addiction scored higher on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (sleepiness)," said Amanda Woolems, who conducted the research. "It surprised us, however, that of the people who admitted being addicted to gaming, only about a third of them recognized an interference with their sleep."
The people who admitted that gaming gets in the way of their snooze time slept 1.6 hours less than others, while people who identified themselves as addicts slept one hour less on weekdays. "Excessive" gamers spend less time in bed, have "longer sleep latency and shorter REM latency," which measures how long it takes for you to reach a certain state of sleep. Reaching REM too quickly is apparently a sign of sleep disorders like narcolepsy.
That doesn't sound too healthy, but I doubt that anything will stop dedicated gamers from getting their game on at the expense of their bodily health. At least in Diablo II I could always just turn my bots on and go to sleep. Yeah, I cheated, but it was for the sake of my health.
[Via Destructoid]
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