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.
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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