I’m thinking that it should be possible to decide when to sleep based on reduced performance.
It certainly is!
Can anyone suggest a tool for that purpose? Perhaps some reaction time testing software?
Double N-back seems to be precisely what you’re looking for. It effectively tests how long a sequence of information you can keep in your mind, and how accurate you can be about recalling the sequence. Being tired impacts your DNB performance, and is a marker for the kind of “reduced performance” you’re looking to avoid.
Accounting for training effects aside, the way you’d work this is to test yourself on a DNB regime every hour or so. When your results start to drop, you entertain the hypothesis that you’re tired; if the next hour is further down still, you decide you’re tired to the point of reduced performance and you go to sleep.
(That is a rule of thumb calculation; you can get Bayesian if you want)
It certainly is!
Double N-back seems to be precisely what you’re looking for. It effectively tests how long a sequence of information you can keep in your mind, and how accurate you can be about recalling the sequence. Being tired impacts your DNB performance, and is a marker for the kind of “reduced performance” you’re looking to avoid.
Accounting for training effects aside, the way you’d work this is to test yourself on a DNB regime every hour or so. When your results start to drop, you entertain the hypothesis that you’re tired; if the next hour is further down still, you decide you’re tired to the point of reduced performance and you go to sleep.
(That is a rule of thumb calculation; you can get Bayesian if you want)
That’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind, thank you! I’ll try it.
-Robin