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Tango01 | 29 Feb 2020 12:21 p.m. PST |
… morning productivity more?. "Shift and emergency workers cannot be sleepy once they wake up. You don't want groggy firefighters driving their trucks on busy city streets. And shift workers typically start working not long after waking up. But what can we do? Scientists from RMIT University in Australia asked 50 participants to individually perform an experiment at home. They had to log what type of sound they use to wake up and then rate their levels of morning grogginess. A special online survey was used for this study. Essentially, scientists wanted to see if melodic sounds help increase alertness more than monotonic beeping. Scientists expected beeping to be more effective, because it literally works like an alarm. It is annoying, but it sort of forces you to wake up and spring into action. However, they were surprised to find that melodic sounds worked better in this regard. Scientists still don't know what combination of melody and rhythm would work best and more studies are needed, but it seems like a nice melody is a better bet than a default beep-beep-beep sound that your alarm clock or a smartphone app comes with…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Oberlindes Sol LIC | 29 Feb 2020 3:19 p.m. PST |
Whatever, but don't use the Star Trek Original Series red alert alarm -- especially if you want to stay married. |
Zephyr1 | 29 Feb 2020 3:30 p.m. PST |
Weaklings. The Company uses shock collars to wake their employees… |
rmaker | 29 Feb 2020 9:01 p.m. PST |
Self-reporting studies, especially of physical/psychological conditions, are notoriously inaccurate. |
Tango01 | 01 Mar 2020 3:39 p.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!…. Amicalement Armand
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von Schwartz | 01 Mar 2020 7:33 p.m. PST |
Alarms, alarms, We don't need no stinking alarms!!!! |
Eclectic Wave | 02 Mar 2020 7:34 a.m. PST |
Just remember, your alarm music is your stories opening soundtrack. |
etotheipi | 02 Mar 2020 7:56 a.m. PST |
I use my medication wearing off overnight and severe muscular and neuropathic pain to wake up in the morning. Works pretty well for me. During the day for attention alarms, I use music. I usually have background noise on (music, sports), as it mitigates my tinnitus. When a conflicting sound comes on, it grabs my attention. Regular "alarm sounds" … not so much. Self-reporting studies, especially of physical/psychological conditions, are notoriously inaccurate. The big issue is people look at a small sample of possible stimuli in a small number of possible operational, personal ('coz it's human behaivour), and criticality (since we want attention) environments. University studies that (should) include criticality in their design of experiments always make me wary. There are numerous decision risk studies that had readily available college kids gambling over a $10 USD Starbucks card. My trust in the representativeness of a hungover frat boy's concern for ten bucks after coming off a $250 USD bender last night is low at best. I just assume all university studies are run like this, then look for evidence in their reports to make me happily believe otherwise. |
dapeters | 02 Mar 2020 10:16 a.m. PST |
When I was a kid I would have a alarm that very unpleasantly buzzed, made me feel sort of sick to my stomach. Then I got a clock radio and I noticed that whatever song was on when I woke would be stuck in my head all day. Now I hear Preston and Steve and the conversation, seems to be enough to draw me out of sleep. |
Tango01 | 02 Mar 2020 12:09 p.m. PST |
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