Female: Sleep deprivation is not any fun but the consequences are trivial, right? While that may be for the people who only experience reduced job performance, for the 100,000 people who get into car accidents each year because of drowsy driving, the consequences are serious indeed.
Male: In the short term, sleep deprivation can lead to decreased performance and alertness during daytime activities. Reducing sleep by just one and a half hours can lead to a 30% reduction in alertness. In fact, over 100,000 car crashes and 7000 accidental deaths each year are attributed to drowsy driving.
If you are not getting enough sleep, your cognitive function and your memory in particular suffers a blow. This can make you difficult to think and process new information on the job or at school and can double the risk that you will suffer in occupational injury.
