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You mean the anecdotal accounts of sleep and admittedly poor perceptions of exercise the participants in the study had? It seems what they should be claiming i
by pwhelan 16y ago
You mean the anecdotal accounts of sleep and admittedly poor perceptions of exercise the participants in the study had?
It seems what they should be claiming is that your mental state matters more than your physical state for sleep. Changing your mental state clearly has an impact but it doesn't make sense to say changing your physical state wouldn't impact sleep as well, even if to a lesser degree.
- tensor 16y agoFrom the abstract: "Conclusions: For early adulthood, findings did not support commonplace or expert opinion that exercise behavior has a favorable influence on sleep. Rather, the findings lend support to the importance of cognitive processes in the onset and maintenance of sleep complaints." They are claiming precisely what you suggest they should. Saying that the evidence does not support physical exercise having an impact on sleep is not the same thing as claiming to have evidence that exercise does not impact sleep. They simply mean that the data they collected does now show any such link. In this case, it is clearly because the cognitive processes appeared to dominate the results. To test the former directly, I suppose one would need some physical measure of good sleep. Perhaps by monitoring brain activity and restlessness.
- pwhelan 16y agoI see. I did not search for the actual study -- only that the researcher interviewed said that exercising aiding sleep is a myth in the article. Silly me, I forgot to remember media often distorts science If that is indeed what they are claiming in their work, then that makes sense and Gretchen Reynolds (nytimes author) should have been clearer.