Are You a Night Owl ?

A "night owl" literalmente una lechuza  nocturna es una expresión idiomática inglesa que se utiliza para describir a aquellas personas que prefieren estar despiertas y activas durante la noche. En este post descubriremos en qué país encontramos más "aves nocturnas" y quiénes son los más dormilones.

  According to a survey by TV ratings giant Nielsen Media Research, the biggest night owls on the planet are the Portuguese. Three-quarters of them don’t go to bed until after midnight. The people in Taiwan are almost as bad: 69 percent are still up after midnight, followed by South Koreans (68 percent), Hong Kong residents (66 percent), Spanish (65 percent), Japanese (60 percent), Singapore residents and Malaysians (tied (empataron)  at 54 percent), Thais (43 percent) and finally the Italians at 39 percent.

Before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879, Americans slept an average of 10 hours a night. Now they’re down to 6.9 hours on weeknights and 7.5 hours on weekends. After comparing complexities of rising and retiring times, the researchers found that the Japanese were the most sleep-deprived of all, with 41 percent getting six hours or less of shut-eye each night.The biggest snoozers  on Earth? The Australians, with 31 percent of them  catching nine hours or more of sleep each night.