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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness. However, after circa 24 hours they … no longer knew where they were relative to friendly and enemy units.