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my question is why do you make false assertions such as this: "it could try to wake the user, resulting in grogginess and complete lack of energy till the end
by digler999 10y ago
my question is why do you make false assertions such as this:
"it could try to wake the user, resulting in grogginess and complete lack of energy till the end of the day". you cite source [4], which is the wikipedia article on "sleep inertia" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_inertia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_inertia
The wikipedia page doesn't say you'll have a "complete lack of energy till the end of the day", or anything close to that. it says "Morning sleep inertia may take several hours to dissipate" and "Sleep inertia is the impaired cognitive performance immediately upon awakening, which decays over tens of minutes", and "In the majority of cases, morning sleep inertia is experienced for 15 to 30 minutes after waking".
so my question is, whose idea was it to embellish using the phrases "complete lack of energy" and "for the rest of the day" ?
- alxd_org 10y agoThank you for pointing that out, I will update it in a moment. I've written a dozen versions of this article trying to accommodate different readers, including non-technical startup community. One of the main functions of NeuroOn is its alarm clock, which promises to "always wake you up in the best moment", which seems not to be true in ~31% of cases. When I used direct wording about "sleep inertia", my test readers with no background in sleep science just said "Meh, it's better than without the mask anyway, isn't it?". It's an honest mistake on my part, which only shows how hard science communication really is - and how hard is to choose a language in debunking bold claims.