Lay opinion vs evidence: Schlaf Männer

Lay opinion often claims that men need less sleep than women or that they generally sleep better. Evidence shows a more nuanced picture: men tend to have shorter sleep duration and lower sleep efficiency, but differences are small and heavily influenced by lifestyle, hormones, and age. While women report more insomnia, men have higher risk for sleep apnea, which impairs subjective sleep quality. The claim that men need less sleep is not supported by robust physiological data. Individual variability is large, and broad gender differences should not be overstated. Caveat: many studies rely on self-report, not objective measures.