> And the consequences of insufficient sleep on ...
Ahh.. the Copenhagen Interpretation of studies.
This particular study is about teenagers - perhaps because 'risky teen behaviour' is something you're more likely to find in teenagers, or, less churlishly, because risky behaviour in general is something you find much more often in teenagers.
Also compare age-segmented stats for depression, suicides, violence, etc - and they're an obviously higher at-risk demographic.
> Not that any of this is news. That adolescents need more sleep than any other age group, and that they suffer tremendously from being deprived it by adults, has been known for an extremely long time.
This is not true.
Outside of newborns / toddlers, pretty much everyone needs about 8 hours of sleep. Changes as you get (much) older make it more difficult to get the full 8 hours, and adolescents' circadian rhythms means that to the uninformed it seems like they want more / less / longer / lazier etc.
They don't - all the current research indicates they need ~8 hours too, but they don't naturally want to fall asleep until 2-3 hours after the average 25+yo.
> But adults don't care.
This is a breathtaking thing to say.
> The most common resistance to the notion of starting high school later is that it would interfere with football practice, making it a total non-starter.
I'd suggest this courageous hypothesis could at best apply to something less than 5% of the world.
Ahh.. the Copenhagen Interpretation of studies.
This particular study is about teenagers - perhaps because 'risky teen behaviour' is something you're more likely to find in teenagers, or, less churlishly, because risky behaviour in general is something you find much more often in teenagers.
Also compare age-segmented stats for depression, suicides, violence, etc - and they're an obviously higher at-risk demographic.
> Not that any of this is news. That adolescents need more sleep than any other age group, and that they suffer tremendously from being deprived it by adults, has been known for an extremely long time.
This is not true.
Outside of newborns / toddlers, pretty much everyone needs about 8 hours of sleep. Changes as you get (much) older make it more difficult to get the full 8 hours, and adolescents' circadian rhythms means that to the uninformed it seems like they want more / less / longer / lazier etc.
They don't - all the current research indicates they need ~8 hours too, but they don't naturally want to fall asleep until 2-3 hours after the average 25+yo.
> But adults don't care.
This is a breathtaking thing to say.
> The most common resistance to the notion of starting high school later is that it would interfere with football practice, making it a total non-starter.
I'd suggest this courageous hypothesis could at best apply to something less than 5% of the world.