• lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today
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        1 day ago

        Hmm, interesting. Somewhat compelling, but:

        • it’s a rather small (n=38) Chinese pilot study
        • the effect on the sleep latency is sizable (a latency decrease from 31±14 to 18±12 minutes, effect size of 0.85), but there’s no effect on actual sleep duration.
        • the sleep measurements were subjective (sleep diaries, not actigraphy)

        I’m also a bit concerned why it’s the only study with this methodology in this later meta-analysis - all of the other “behavioral intervention” studies in it experiment with stuff like “extended time-in-bed”. In other words, there seems to not have been any followup or replication of this study.

        • Hackworth@lemmy.world
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          23 hours ago

          We must stop this science on science violence.

          -> You mean peer review?

          Lol, don’t the publications farm that out and review none of it?

          -> We must stop this science on science violence!

          I think that’s just the corrupting influence of money and power.

          -> We use good methodology to show methodology has been systemically compromised.

          [citation needed]

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