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> Whatever time is chosen is a moving target since kids would go to sleep later if school started later. That is obviously not true because then no school-star
by gwern 9y ago
> Whatever time is chosen is a moving target since kids would go to sleep later if school started later.
That is obviously not true because then no school-starting analysis or experiment would show anything but a zero correlation or effect.
> The real fix is to get kids to sleep earlier.
'The real fix to poverty is to get people to spend less and make more.'
> artificial light lets them stay up very late without them feeling sleepy.
The problem existed long before smartphones were a thing, and the effect of artificial light can only be so great. And again, if this were true, no study would ever show any benefits (or age-related differences, for that matter, between teens and adults).