Just wondering why alarm clocks have a 9 minute snooze time?
That’s been covered here.
Welcome to SDMB Mad Dog, I didn’t see how new you were. A lot of questions have been answered in Cecil’s columns or in previous threads. There is a good search engine for the threads as well as an archive of all Cecil’s previous columns.
Cecil didn’t go for the theory that 10 minutes sounds like too much time to indulge in extra sleep much like paying $1.99 for something is more palatable than $2
That’s my theory, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of inertial maintencance of an imprecise historical condition.
Thanks Padeye for link. I am leaning towards Dystopos. To me it appears to be the fact that 10 minutes was just too long! to be sleeping in.