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What's next? "Children's diet has little effect on their health, says study"? How do they publish things like this with a straight face? This is not tied to th
by davebryand 8y ago
What's next? "Children's diet has little effect on their health, says study"?
How do they publish things like this with a straight face? This is not tied to the reality that I'm experiencing--you? We don't need peer-reviewed studies to tell us things that are easy to study empirically.
Please run an experiment on yourself and make up your mind.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoWell, to be fair, it could be that is has an effect on your children's sleep, and they're anomalous - but that doesn't mean the study is baseless, just that it isn't useful to you specifically.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> This is not tied to the reality that I'm experiencing--you? Certainly in terms of short-term variations in quantity of screen time having little effect, and much smaller than other factors, on sleep time it matches my current experience with my son. Not that I give that experience much weight in general predictions. > We don't need peer-reviewed studies to tell us things that are easy to study empirically. I think you've confused “empirically” with “anecdotally”. N=1 testing has, in the best case, very large error bars in predicting broad population generalities. (And , in most cases, makes it very hard to isolate confounding factors.)