After reading “How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?” by Jade Wu Savvy I thought: “I didn’t learn anything from this”. The article fails to make a reasonable point and the logic is extremely. It started off by listing the common “stereotypes” about sleep, by saying that “’Dr. Google hasn’t examined me; how would she know how much sleep I need,’”. The article talks about how most sources claim that eight hours is a good recommendation for most people, which is supposedly wrong because different people have different needs. This is a fair point, and it uses the different amounts of water that athletes compared to normal people have to drink as an example. However later in the article, they go on the say that teens are recommended 8 to 10 hours of sleep. Although this range does have some variation, it is basically the same as saying “teens need about 8 hours of sleep”, which kind of just ignores its previous point. But to try and salvage the purpose of the article, later it states that toddlers need 11 – 18 hours and the elderly need only 5 – 9. The problem with this is that it is common knowledge, and does nothing to disprove the supposed stereotype about needing an average of 8 hours of sleep. Besides, it is contradictory to the previous point that different people need different sleep. When they used the athlete example, they compare people of roughly the same age. Therefore, assigning a predetermined answer to an age group is going against what it originally intended to debunk. Overall this article is a mess and wasn’t thought through very well.
