{"id":777,"date":"2004-01-22T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2004-01-22T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T17:15:34","slug":"on-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/22\/on-sleeping\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/01\/22\/1315250\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Just Sleep On It&#8217; Solves Tricky Problems? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>An anonymous reader writes &#8220;CBC news reports that the effectiveness of &#8216;sleeping on it&#8217; when faced with a difficult task may have more than just anecdotal roots. 66 students were trained to perform a calculation on an eight digit number using two simple rules which would take seven steps to complete. A different method existed to perform the same calculation &#8216;almost instantly&#8217;, but was not shown to the students. After eight hours, where half the students were allowed to sleep and the other half remained awake, 60% of the rested and 22% of the wakeful students discovered the more efficient method.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Just Sleep On It&#8217; Solves Tricky Problems? An anonymous reader writes &#8220;CBC news reports that the effectiveness of &#8216;sleeping on it&#8217; when faced with a difficult task may have more than just anecdotal roots. 66 students were trained to perform a calculation on an eight digit number using two simple rules which would take seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}