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iPad on maximum brightness is what they were using. They sure buried it! That would be close to painful and certainly very unpleasant in a dim room at night..
by ben7799 5y ago
iPad on maximum brightness is what they were using. They sure buried it!
That would be close to painful and certainly very unpleasant in a dim room at night.. WTH were the study authors thinking?
The iPad won't even do that without the user manually setting it up to do that, and almost no one is going to find it comfortable.
It seems more like they were trying to set the conditions to get the result they desired. They could have shined an LED flashlight into the user's eyes and gotten the same result.
- mpalczewski 5y ago> WTH were the study authors thinking? They were thinking that they wanted a publishable result. Unfortunately, little to no difference on sleep between dim e-reader at night vs book and dim light wouldn't get published even though would be really useful to know.
- Beltalowda 5y agoIt would seem to me that "there is no difference with appropriate light intensity settings" would be a much more publishable result? That max. brightness affects sleep is an unsurprising "common sense" result (although still worth doing research over just to verify), but I – and I think many people – genuinely don't know if there's an effect with low light settings (and/or colour temperature settings), and if there's an effect, how large that effect might be. In short: that seems a much more interesting study.