Categories: just-life
Date: 06 September 2006 00:31:08
There is an article in New Scientist (it's in the car, so I may get bits wrong) saying that there's a reason that teenagers become harder to wake in the morning and stay up later in the evening. Something to do with hormones or something. They had this lovely graph showing that from about the ages of ten till mid-twenties the average going to bed/getting up gets later and later, then suddenly this trend changes, mid-twenties till your sixies the going to bed/getting up suddenly gets earlier and earlier.
Hormones.
I have other ideas. Teenagers start going to bed later, because they can. People from their mid-twenties and older start going to bed earlier cause they have to get up in the morning for jobs. You can't do the getting up early and the staying up late. Especially if the getting up early pays and the late nights don't. The seventies up part of the graph showed that the times suddenly reverted to getting later. Could this be associated to retirement....?? The no longer need to get up in the morning...??? Or is that hormones as well....???
Sometimes, scientists try too hard to look for complicated reasons. And there might have been some hormones at work as well.... I didn't really read the article.....