I have attempted to use freerice.com for this purpose (I was interested in quantifying just exactly how stupid I was, in real time, while I adapted to polyphasic sleeping. The answer was pretty damn stupid, but I didn’t really need a test to tell me that). I can’t say the results track particularly well with how I’m feeling subjectively, but I can’t really say which of those is in error. At any rate, this probably doesn’t measure very many components of intelligence. I didn’t keep up with it because it is slow and it’s hard to know when to stop and record your level.
Go problems would be more of a laziness test for me. The ones that are easy enough to not require work I probably know just as well in my sleep.
quantifying just exactly how stupid I was, in real time, while I adapted to polyphasic sleeping.
Could you give a short report on how PS worked out for you in the end? Saving on downtime seems like a major potential win to me, but probably isn’t worth it if you have to trade any measurable amount of intelligence for it.
I’d be interested in more empirical data regarding the advantages and disadvantages of PS over a monophasic sleep shedule.
Intelligence returns to normal if not better (my subjective opinion) once completely adapted and no longer sleep deprived. That takes around a month.
I’m still experimenting with different schedules; I may post something here on it eventually in the anti-akrasia category, as the posts here were one of the things that motivated me to try it in the first place.
Intelligence returns to normal if not better (my subjective opinion) once completely adapted and no longer sleep deprived. That takes around a month.
I wouldn’t believe my own subjective estimate on such things, only something objectively verifiable counts. It’s too intangible, and a month is too long to accurately remember your own experience, to boot through a lens of what is possibly a different mental condition.
I got very familiar with what it feels like to be at a particular level of of sleep deprivation in the course of adaptation, so I think my subjective opinion there is probably not so far off, but I agree I can’t really expect anyone else to have much faith in it.
I’ve attended one go tournament since I started, and I achieved a result better than my last few tournaments. OK, and I just beat my record at freerice.com. Other than that it will be difficult to come up with good data, as I’ve never taken an IQ test in my life. I should have taken an online one at least before I started, but I didn’t think of it until it was too late, and I don’t really trust the online ones anyway
I have attempted to use freerice.com for this purpose (I was interested in quantifying just exactly how stupid I was, in real time, while I adapted to polyphasic sleeping. The answer was pretty damn stupid, but I didn’t really need a test to tell me that). I can’t say the results track particularly well with how I’m feeling subjectively, but I can’t really say which of those is in error. At any rate, this probably doesn’t measure very many components of intelligence. I didn’t keep up with it because it is slow and it’s hard to know when to stop and record your level.
Go problems would be more of a laziness test for me. The ones that are easy enough to not require work I probably know just as well in my sleep.
Could you give a short report on how PS worked out for you in the end? Saving on downtime seems like a major potential win to me, but probably isn’t worth it if you have to trade any measurable amount of intelligence for it.
I’d be interested in more empirical data regarding the advantages and disadvantages of PS over a monophasic sleep shedule.
Intelligence returns to normal if not better (my subjective opinion) once completely adapted and no longer sleep deprived. That takes around a month.
I’m still experimenting with different schedules; I may post something here on it eventually in the anti-akrasia category, as the posts here were one of the things that motivated me to try it in the first place.
I wouldn’t believe my own subjective estimate on such things, only something objectively verifiable counts. It’s too intangible, and a month is too long to accurately remember your own experience, to boot through a lens of what is possibly a different mental condition.
I got very familiar with what it feels like to be at a particular level of of sleep deprivation in the course of adaptation, so I think my subjective opinion there is probably not so far off, but I agree I can’t really expect anyone else to have much faith in it.
I’ve attended one go tournament since I started, and I achieved a result better than my last few tournaments. OK, and I just beat my record at freerice.com. Other than that it will be difficult to come up with good data, as I’ve never taken an IQ test in my life. I should have taken an online one at least before I started, but I didn’t think of it until it was too late, and I don’t really trust the online ones anyway