7/23/2019 Argument_Sleep Per Night

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In this article the author cites results of a recent study that showed anassociation between executives amount of sleep and their success inadvertising companies as a support for his conclusion. Precisely, the authorclaims that if a business wants to be successful it should hire people that areable to sleep 6 hours per night or less. But this conclusion su ers from someseveral reasoning aws which render argument unconvincing.

!irstly, the author overviewed that correlation doesnt presuppose causation.In addition, the study, which he based his conclusion on, is executed onexecutives of advertising companies, meaning that sample is selective andthat results cannot be generali"ed on other types of employees andbusinesses. #o be more precise, executives are employees who are alreadysuccessful, and who, as opposed to employees of lower echelon, have moreresponsibilities and tas$s. If the author wants to ma$e a foregone conclusion,he needs to base it on a study that uses representative sample.

%econdly, the author presumed that people who sleep less per night areusing their remaining time for &ob and wor$ tas$s. #hat may be the matter inthe case of executives examined, but doesnt mean that all the people willuse their free time for wor$. 'ne who wor$s () hours may be e*cient asmuch as one who wor$ (+ hours. #his is about a time distribution, note ectiveness per hour. If the author wanted to bring out a valid conclusion,he must have had a control group of people who he would compareexecutives with in performance, hours of sleep and daily wor$ing hours.

#hirdly, by the same to$en, his very erroneous assumption is that peoplewho sleep less are more e ective than people who sleep more, despite thestudies showing that people need enough sleep which is also individual- inorder to be more e ective. lso, need for sleep to feel rested is individual,and the author must had ta$en that into account while bringing out aconclusion.

!rom given premises, I would bring a conclusion that executives aresuccessful since they sleep less and the remaining time of a day are using forthe &ob. But this conclusion is opposite of the authors one. #herefore hisconclusion is far unconvincing since he didnt use a representative samplewhich he would have compared with control group. !urthermore, he had tota$e for account employees distribution of wor$ing hours in order tocompare their e*ciency and the individual need for sleep.