Hilariously awesome scientific paper finally reveals whether going to bed early make you healthy, wealthy, and wise

That , at least , was Benjamin Franklin ’s theory . ( He also said we should be early to uprise , because he was a jerk , I guess . ) But when scientist put this one-time maxim to the test , did they find any truth to it ?

Back in 2006 , that ’s what a triad of investigator essay to see out , albeit in a , uh , less than completely serious way of life . ( For example : their lone footer is , “ This clause was peer reviewed by someone . Peggy ? You read this , right-hand ? ” ) They excuse they were try out the Benjamin Franklin hypothesis that “ early to layer and early to rise up makes a humanity healthy , flush , and wise ” against the competing hypothesis by 20th century author and wit James Thurber , who amended it to “ healthy , wealthy , and numb . ”

Here ’s how they did it :

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As part of the Determinants of Myocardial Infarction Onset Study , we determined through personal interviews the bedtimes and inflame times of 949 men admit to infirmary with acute myocardial infarct . participant report their educational attainment and zip code of manse , from which local median income was estimated . We followed participants for mortality for a mean of 3.7 year . We defined early - to - bed and early - to - rise severally as a bedtime before 11 pm and awaken time before 6:30 am .

The researchers feel that about the only clear relationship to how many hour a soul slept was how much coffee bean they drank … as you might imagine , that particular relationship was reverse . They found that there was no important kinship at all between when a person ’s slumber docket and their mortality , income levels , or teaching , which are decent enough experimental sales booth - ins for wellness , wealthiness , and wiseness , although they do acknowledge the job with all these in wondrously tongue - in - cheek manner :

We acknowledge several limitation of our oeuvre . First , we inscribe a universe of AMI patients and , thus , none can sincerely be consider sizable . However , none of us is really all that healthy anyway . Second , due to our own deficiency of Wisdom of Solomon , we know of no reliable and formalize instrument to appraise it ; education is but an poorly - school reliever . Third , we had no measures of personal income , and thus these analyses test the rather oblique hypothesis that too soon - to - layer and early - to - climb makes a man ’s locale of mansion house flush .

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“ None of us is really all that sizeable anyway” … now that , ladies and gentleman’s gentleman , is good science . Anyway , they end up off their report with a promise of more research into old saying like these – a promise that we can only hope the scientific community someday sustain :

In finis , we found no grounds to support the Franklin or Thurber theory that sleep habits order health , wealth or soundness , either for the good or the bad . Further enquiry stay necessary to determine whether Franklin ’s ( “ He that lives upon Hope , pall break wind ” ) or Thurber ’s ( “ It is secure to have tarry and lose , than never to have loafed at all ” ) other surmise get along well under conventional scrutiny .

I ’d get to work organizing those experiments myself , but I ’ll be true – I ’ve become to go look for more fart - related citation from the Founding Fathers . It just seems like the right thing to do . While I ’m doing that , I very much give notice ascertain out the original paper , which you’re able to read in its entirety at the connectedness below .

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