Average Adult Sleep Time Quotes

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“In the 1960s, a major study on the early indicators of cancer also found that adults were getting an average of 8.5 hours' sleep. Today, the average sleep for a working adult is 6.8 hours. ... We've become a society of the chronically overtired. So tired, we don't realise we're mentally impaired. So tired that we don't recognise risky decisions. So tired that we don't notice unethical behaviour in others or ourselves. So exhausted that we don't even realise there's a moral question in front of us.”
Fleur Anderson, On Sleep