Our night-owl culture is officially under attack. There's no denying it
now. The evidence is solid. We can no longer pretend there isn't a
problem. Reading, playing on the computer and drinking and smoking all
night with friends does in fact have a negative impact on our academic
performance. A new scientific finding illustrates unequivocally what we
already knew or suspected intuitively: Night owls get lower grades.
Armed
with the dull hypothesis, researchers at the University of North Texas
split 824 students into two categories: the good (high GPAs) and the
bad (low GPAs). In the survey, the good students mostly identified
themselves as "morning people." The bad students griped about trouble
staying focused and sleep irregularities such as difficulty falling
asleep, sleepwalking, restless kicking … and most likely an
inordinate fondness for potato chips and The Late Late Show with Craig
Ferguson. Most of them fell asleep during the survey before they got
that far, though.
Rock and Roll All Night, Feel Guilty Every Day
Recent attacks on the collegiate nightowl lifestyle have forced one writer to defend his people. Fire up the random statistic generator!