wedrifid comments on My Childhood Death Spiral - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 September 2008 03:42AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 April 2012 12:21:29PM 5 points [-]

I suspect even moderate sleep deprivation or a mild headache can (temporarily) impair your cognitive abilities by more than 5 IQ points.

Comment author: wedrifid 01 April 2012 02:15:36PM 2 points [-]

I suspect even moderate sleep deprivation or a mild headache can (temporarily) impair your cognitive abilities by more than 5 IQ points.

I suspect you are right and if I recall correctly the sleep deprivation -> IQ loss relationship has even been quantized!