Comment by Jensson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Jensson | Hacker News Reader

> On the other end of the spectrum is Boulder County, Colorado, which you might call the sleep capital of America

That city is famous for attracting a bunch of people who love hiking and climbing mountains. It isn't a good example here, it is just full of young people who love to exercise, of course they are healthier! Just having an average age of 28.5 years have a dramatic impact on sleep statistics!

There are many other numbers in the articles that are strange, like here they compare average employed people to 13% of unemployed people, that could be true for a single population so it doesn't tell us anything!

> in a 2020 study, 13% of newly unemployed people said they got four hours of sleep or less a night, half of what the average employed person gets

>It isn't a good example here, it is just full of young people who love to exercise, of course they are healthier!

Same how some Eastern European countries like Czechia top alcohol consumption per capita charts, when the numbers are pushed up by tourists going there to get shitfaced.

Touristic cities that attract a lot of people for one thing or the other should just be excluded from some statistics.

What's the math here? Austria gets 2-3 times as many tourists per capita, but consumes 20% less. Tourists spent 56 million nights in Czechia in 2023, while the 10 million residents presumably spend a bit less than 365 nights in the country: how big of an impact could there be?

I can see how the argument would apply to certain cities or resort regions, i.e. I bet Palma de Mallorca has a much higher daily consumption during the summer season than in the winter.

No one is going to Vienna for a stag party, so tourists per capita may not tell the whole story.

Not just young but very fit and athletic. It's hard to not fall asleep quickly if you've spent the day hiking.

I am reasonably fit but felt very ashamed of my body when I visited Boulder.

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