Comment by wodenokoto

There was another article related to this study that hit the HN front page. It talked about the size of effect, and argued that the effect size was ridiculously big, and if true, we should see giant spikes in car crashes around lunch, big enough for common sense to ban driving just before noon.

I think you'll enjoy the read.

> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45. Or at the very least, our society would have organized itself around this incredibly strong effect of mental depletion.

https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-...