Goodnight, John Boy

I'll bet THEY didn't sleep much!

Are you a trypical American? if so, stop that darned yawning, turn off the computer, and get some sleep! A recent poll noted on CNN indicated that 60% of us do not regularly get a good night's shuteye. and it doesn't seem to matter what your ethnicity is, either. No word in this survey about gender, however.
One thousand people in four ethnic groups betweent he ages of 25 and 60 were surveyed with regard to their bedtime routines, pre-sleep habits and the results of all of that. What resulted is that a great number of people have sleep issues. More than 25% in each group claimed to hae missed work or a family function because they were simply too tired from sleep deprivation. About the same number reported often being "too tired for sex." Here's where I might need more gender-based information, but it is not available.
Anyway, here is a breakdown of pre-sleep rituals:
75% of African-Americans surveyed said that they watched television before going to bed, while 64% of caucasians did and only 52% of Asians watched the tube. No word in this category, apparently, from the Hispanics. The Asian population was far more likely, however, to be using the computer prior to hitting the hay.
As far as using the bedroom for sex, 10% of the African-American and Hispanic respondents indicated that they engaged in sex almost every night (get the polygraph) while 4% of caucasians were so inclined and a mere 1% of Asians felt frisky on a regular basis prior to bedtime.
From the religious angle, African-Americans prayed prior to going to sleep far more than did any of the other groups.
With regard to cleeping arrangements, 75% of Hispanics who responded and 67% of Asians who responded reported that they did not sleep with their partners (those having one, at least) at night. Lest you think that odd, these are the two groups that most often sleep with children in the room or in the bed, called"co-sleeping."
While caucasians rarely do that, they are far more likely to sleep with pets than any of the other groups.
So, who gets the most and the least sleep? The least amount of quality sleep is recorded by the African-American respondents who got an average of 6.25 hours per night. Before you jump to conclusions about the sexual activity aspect, remember that Hispanics were in on that, too.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the caucasians got the most sleep, averaging almost 7 hours with the Hispanic and Asian population somewhere between the high and the low.
What to make of it? Not for me to say, but that pet iguana can't read, so he'll continue to stay in his cage at night and hiss at the gerbils running on their wheel.
I'm getting my seven hours.