Interesting project; not entirely surprising that sleep deficit increases possibility of low happiness, but doesn't force it.
Definitely correlates with my happiness levels being much more all over the map in the last 6mths of running an involuntary sleep deficit due to a shoulder injury that impairs sleep (&worse the week after the surgery).
I've also noticed a definite thinking deficit as this wears on, and am thinking of doing a tracking project.
Rather than just going by subjective 'feel like I'm (not) thinking well', does anyone know of a good site that has a deep library of correlated mind test questions such that one could take repeated tests but not encounter repeat questions?
Working memory is a decent proxy for overall brain function, and straightforward to test, eg. with a Dual N-Back game like http://brainscale.net/dual-n-back
You need to have a baseline score to compare with. Your score will improve pretty quick in the beginning and then start to level out.
I also like typing speed tests, to test the effects of exhaustion, sleep deprivation and various states of mind. (In some cases, the speed is actually increased, but typically at the cost of accuracy.)
For typing speed I use https://typeracer.com which has some excellent book and movie quotes to type.
another one, w/ a somewhat different angle I'd found was a straight mental math trainer, discovered from another commenter here on HN:
http://www.mental-math-trainer.com/
Definitely correlates with my happiness levels being much more all over the map in the last 6mths of running an involuntary sleep deficit due to a shoulder injury that impairs sleep (&worse the week after the surgery).
I've also noticed a definite thinking deficit as this wears on, and am thinking of doing a tracking project.
Rather than just going by subjective 'feel like I'm (not) thinking well', does anyone know of a good site that has a deep library of correlated mind test questions such that one could take repeated tests but not encounter repeat questions?