Posted on 10/09/2020 4:02:29 PM PDT by untenured
Technology and social media use are increasingly associated with delays in nightly sleep. Here, we consider the timing of President Trump’s official Twitter account posts as a proxy for sleep duration and how it relates to his public performance. The President wakes around 6am, a routine which has not changed since early 2017. In contrast, the frequency of Twitter activity 11pm-2am increased 317% from under one day per week in 2017 to three days a week in 2020. The President’s increased late-night activity is not accounted for by increases in the frequency of his use of social media over time, his travel schedule, or seasonality. On the day following one where he posts late at night, his Twitter followers interact less with his posts, described as “official statements by the President of the United States”.1 He receives 7,400 fewer likes per tweet, 1,300 fewer retweets per tweet, and 1,400 fewer replies per tweet after a late night (drops of 6.5%–8%).
Tweets aside, the President’s speeches and interview transcripts have previously been coded for their dominant emotion through text analysis. On the day following a late night, the President’s inferred emotion is less likely to be “happy” and nearly three times more likely to be “angry” in his interviews and speeches. Finally, the 2020 election odds of the President’s chief opponent also increase after a late night, while the President’s are unchanged. The pattern we document is consistent with a progressive shortening of the President’s sleep over his first term and compromised performance from sleep deprivation.
Pure unadulterated horse patties. Good lord.
ping
Bull Schiff.
The Twitter activity 11pm-2am could be true because many of them don’t have jobs.
Big data is watching you.
Yup....the “eyes” are everywhere
The pattern we document is consistent with a progressive shortening of the President’s sleep over his first term and compromised performance from sleep deprivation.
It couldn’t have anything to do with his being hunted
like an animal since he first came down the elevator?
It couldn’t have anything to do with being persecuted
for FOUR solid years?
Baaaah, these liberal wimps make me sick.
“They” really really try to appear that they understand math, analysis, and real science.
They fail miserably.
And, of course, absolutely nothing written at all about the demonstrably senile, crooked, and sub-par intelligence Biden.
Yep. I havent slept 8 full hrs a night since I was a little kid.
Get by just fine on 4-5 hrs of sleep. All my adult life ive been a night owl turning in usually around 1 or 2am
Now when I was young it was more like 3 or 4am!
Pure B$ from two supposedly senior Freepers.
What the hell can we expect later on FR, human sacrifices or on line suicide by insane senior FR Trolls.
I indeed have been around here awhile, but am only reporting what others say, for Freepers to react to. Which is what, back when “senior“ me was just a newbie, FR was supposed to be about.
You and I have both been around here quite awhile. I hope I am not misunderstanding what is implied in your response. I have always enjoyed your posts.
these people are absolute morons: President Trump has always maintained that he doesn’t need more than four hours of sleep during the night ...
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