• @[email protected]
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    710 hours 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.

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      6 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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