Does daylight savings kill people?
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Published 2018-09-19
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All Comments (21)
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1:13 "It could give them a heart attack!" Try not to look so excited there, Matt.
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Matt: In my new book, Humble Pi, the comedy of maths errors Me: goes to amazon, looks it up, book hasn’t been released yet, goes back to the video Matt: It won’t be released until March 2019 Me: Goddamnit
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If my math is right, and I’m sure people will let me know I’f I’m not, it would take 96 days of saving a quarter hour each day to have a whole day saved.
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By the way people, that wwwh . umble-pi . com is NOT an error! It is the proper website. If you try to type it with the "humble" completed, it takes you somewhere else. (And I was all excited to think I had caught an error... just does to show you, double-check when you think someone else has messed up, because you might be wrong.)
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Monday is dangerous... We should go back to work on Tuesday !
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In E.U. people kill daylight savings
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Saving up 15 minutes per day for 3+ months and winding up with a Tuesday... now that would give me a heart attack.
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What about car accidents and other fatigue related deaths?
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How about other deaths? One I've heard pretty often was sleep-deprived motorists causing more accidents after the leap forward.
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My brother actually had his master memoir on the effects of lighting on driving. Much of that study was spent looking at daylight savings and he found a significant increase in accidents correlated with time changes.
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So not heart attacks. Does the less sleep impact things requiring concentration (like say dealing with moving vehicles)? Does productivity go down the one day following the clock change (or vice-versa does anti-productivity go up)?
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By that logic, since everybody dies, everything either accelerates or decelerates death, nothing actually causes or prevents it. I guess the question is, over what time frame do we decide that something is meaningful or not in a "causal" manner?
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Here a fitting quote: Never trust a statistic which you haven’t faked yourself.
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I remember my psychology teacher saying that a reason against daylight savings is that there are more car accidents when we lose an hour of sleep. This would still be just the one day but I don't see how that could average out in the same way as heart attacks. Does daylight savings kill people this way?
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Daylight savings doesn't kill, going to work kills
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I for one am deeply appreciative of you taking the time to make that cute graphic of happy and sad heart slippage. Keep it up 🤟🏻
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1:12 Matt being happy about people getting a heart attack
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I thought most of the deaths are from car accidents.
