Asleep at the idiot box

Robert Bannister wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:

I'm hopeless at television: I forget to watch even when I intend
to.

I always intend to watch, but my eyes fall shut.

Why is it that men frequently fall asleep in front of the television
set, but women rarely do? There's no obvious reason why it should be
sex-linked. If the explanation involves natural selection, it might be
that in the long term, over thousands of generations, women who fell
asleep in front of the television were less likely to breed; but I would
have thought it would be the other way around.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org

Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain
eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer
reliably receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses.
The optusnet address still has about 3 months of life left.
.

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