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by hox 4495 days ago
What about figure 9 that shows sustained 60+ hour work weeks drop productivity to 45% that of a 40 hour work week after week 4?

Additionally, you are never going to find research that discussed the magical unicorns you describe and not averages. That's not how research works.

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What about figure 9 that shows sustained 60+ hour work weeks drop productivity to 45% that of a 40 hour work week after week 4?

What about it? My only claim is that the answer is complicated. I'm not claiming that 60 hours/week is a magical long term answer perfect for everyone everywhere in every industry. It's the 40 hours/week people who are making that claim.

Additionally, you are never going to find research that discussed the magical unicorns you describe and not averages.

Yes, it clearly requires a wizard riding a narwhal to compute quintiles.

Without the quintiles/ventiles/etc it's impossible to conclude that an individual can't work 60+ hour weeks. That's a simple fact about distributions. If the 100+ years of research don't provide that, it simply means that more work needs to be done because we don't know the answer.