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Your hair and skin get greasy because you aren't bathing, not because you aren't sleeping.

• jacobolus 10y ago
  You are incorrect, as you can trivially verify yourself with a few days’ first-hand observation. Even if you don’t bathe at all for a few days, or just rinse yourself with water (skip the oil-stripping soap for this experiment), the greasiness of hair/skin fluctuates noticeably throughout the day, and increases substantially after a day or two of insufficient sleep. (That’s right, the greasiness will go up and then subsequently go down, without your doing anything special in between.) [Side note: it’s pretty disappointing when people make confident sounding assertions about things they clearly don’t know anything about and didn’t bother to do the tiniest trivial bit of study. I find this happens quite commonly even in discussion venues where there’s ostensibly a cultural value placed on reasoning and evidence.]
  • debatem1 10y ago
    I've been sleep deprived for extended periods before and never noticed the difference. Is there sample size > 1 evidence for this you're aware of?
  • Retra 10y ago
    You want to casually study myself while sleep-deprived? That sounds like a recipe for trustworthy results, I'm sure. Of course I'm going to get more greasy after two days of not using soap. I don't see how that would verify anything that you are claiming.