The Health Benefits Of Being A Night Owl

Better Reasoning Skills

Night owls also possess better reasoning skills. In 2013, researchers at the University of Madrid worked with nearly 1,000 teenage volunteers. Around twenty-five percent were early birds, thirty-two percent were night owls, and the rest fell between those two extremes. The researchers checked the participants’ reports cards and administered tests of the volunteers’ inductive reasoning skills. They found that the night owls got higher scores in inductive reasoning than did the other two groups. The researchers speculated that intelligent children would have historically been drawn to nighttime activities. Such activities would have been unusual and thus attracted the attention of curious children.