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OLGA KHAZAN | NOV 11, 2014
Ah, to be so famous that a major university rearranges its events just so you can
hit the snooze button.
But now, scientists in Russia are proposing that there are actually four
chronotypes: In addition to early and late risers, they say, there are also people
who feel energetic in both the mornings and evenings, as well as people who feel
lethargic all day.
The results showed that among them were 29 larks, who showed higher energy
levels at 9 a.m. than at 9 p.m., and 44 owls, for whom the opposite was true. The
owls also went to bed about two hours later, on average, than the larks. But the
rest of the group fell into neither of these patterns. As BPS Research Digest puts
it:
Both the lethargic and energetic participants went to bed and woke up
somewhere between the owl and lark times. The energetic people slept about a
half-hour less overall than the other three groups, netting about 7.5 hours of
sleep each night.
So next time, rather than complain to your co-workers that you’re “always tired,”
just let them know that you’re part of a newly discovered chronotype that is, in
essence, all out of awakes to give.
The next big question is, obviously, what bird names to assign these two new
groups. Lazy Bird and hummingbird? The albatross and the peregrine falcon?
How many of these are already taken by indie bands?
OLGA KHAZAN is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers health.
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