Olivia Backus, Campbell Hone, Lauren Andrade, Saisha

How many of YOU stay up late each night, working on homework, finishing a project, or
studying for a test? These are common reasons why each and everyone of us stays up later
than we should, but is that necessarily a bad thing?

We’re here today to discuss whether or not night owls are lazy. But what exactly does this
mean? We would propose that night owls are not lazier than early birds.

Night owls have tremendous stamina due to the late night activity they engage in. By staying up
later, and being more active each night, their stamina builds much quicker than the early birds.
A higher stamina means significantly less laziness.

Opponents might argue that the early bird is the only one to get the worm, however night
owls seem to eat their own worms ;).

In conclusion, this is really a debate about a night owl's ability to perform, their stamina
that comes with practice , and about the worms night owls are catching . So i urge you,
if you remember only one thing, to remember that night owls are not lazy as they may
seem

It was discovered that night owls had better batting averages on a whole than morning
larks, although not surprisingly, it seems as if vigorous exercise is linked to better sleep
in both groups.

Vocational, math, reading, and other cognitive processing abilities were measured, and
it was found that evening types outperformed morning larks on almost every test, with
significant differences in memory speeds.

Amongst a group of both men and women that were observed in a 1998 study at
Southampton University in England, it was found that night owls (those that went to bed
after 11 p.m. and woke up after 8 a.m.) had higher salaries than early birds, although
both groups placed roughly the same on cognitive and general health scales.
Want to show how being a night owl is better for learning, so schools should start later?

Perhaps, though early research tells us that there is a positive correlation between late-
night sleepers and creativity. In a study by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,
researchers found that those who preferred to sleep late had higher scores in creative
thinking, displaying better originality, fluidity and flexibility compared to their morning
counterparts.

Researchers from the University of Liège studied 30 extreme-early and extreme-late

sleepers to see how their attention span varied throughout the day, measuring cerebral
activity twice — once at 1.5 hours after their usual waking time, the second at 10.5
hours after waking.

Initially at 1.5 hours after waking, both performed equally well. However, after 10.5
hours of waking when the pressure to sleep is greater, night owls actually showed an
improvement in performance, which was not the same for early risers.

Researchers from the University of Madrid tested the various skills of 887 teenagers
and found that night owls scored higher in inductive reasoning (the ability to observe,
recognise a pattern and offer an explanation or theory) compared to morning risers.

This is key as inductive reasoning has been shown to be correlated to prestigious

occupations and higher income.