The city that goes to bed early: Study finds New Yorker's are first to turn in at 11pm - and Russians don't get out of bed until after 8am
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New Yorker's are first to bed, and Muscovites the last to get out of bed, a major new study into global sleep habits has found.
Researchers at Jawbone released the data from users of its popular fitness tracker.
It reveals the majority of New York really does sleep - and are in bed by 11pm, while those in Moscow and Dubai don't rise until 8am.
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'The movement and sleep patterns of a city tell an amazing story about its culture and people,' said Brian Wilts of Jawbone, who collated the data.
'Here are the sleep patterns of UP wearers for seven cities from Monday, March 31, 2014, a typical night.
'New Yorkers work hard and play hard, and they're the first to bed and among the first to rise.
'Users in Tokyo are among some of the last to go to bed and the first to wake up, since they only average 5 hours and 46 min of night sleep.
'Dubai has the most leisurely sleep schedule, with 10% of users still asleep by 11am.
'We can also see people in Madrid taking their afternoon sleep (although it's much more common on weekends, with greater than 10% of UP wearers logging a siesta).
Only a maximum of 95% of a city is asleep at any given time, since the early risers are awake before the last to sleep are in bed.
New Yorker's work hard and play hard, and they're the first to bed and among the first to rise, the study found.
The firm used the data to create an interactive graphic showing when each city sleeps and wakes.
The UP by Jawbone sleep tracking band records not only bedtime and waketime, but also time to fall asleep, awakenings, and sleep quality.
The average hours of sleep cited above do not include time awake in bed.
'Each pattern forms a distinct "thumbprint" for the city, the unique way its citizens live their lives.
'To an untrained eye, these images may just look like the abstract brush strokes of a Rothko painting.
'To a data scientist, however, these graphics richly detail the routines — and occasional abnormalities — of city denizens.'
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