yea this is bs because it’s taking 6hrs sleep across 2 weeks, and comparing it to a person who stayed up for only 2 nights (but no deprivation prior to those 2 nights). IRL sleeping 6 hrs is way better than not sleeping, you’d probably die if you didn’t sleep for 2 weeks

As someone who regularly doesn’t sleep I am going to go ahead and say this is probably bullshit. Even pretending to sleep is better than not sleeping.

Upon reading the article I think the title is just misleading. What can be said is that regularly getting only 6 hours of sleep will cognitively impair you in similar amounts to not sleeping for a few days but is less noticable because you have time to get used to it. This does not account for the physical effects of not sleeping for a couple days. Calling it “just as bad” is a gross generalization.

Subjects who got six hours of sleep a night for two weeks straight functioned as poorly as those who were forced to stay awake for two days straight.

I don’t think the author has any idea what not sleeping at all even feels like.