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>To address this question, we analyzed 408 publicly available YouTube videos featuring a single cat in a clearly visible sleeping position while lying on one si
by Isamu 1y ago
>To address this question, we analyzed 408 publicly available YouTube videos featuring a single cat in a clearly visible sleeping position while lying on one side, with an uninterrupted sleep duration of at least 10 seconds and full-body visibility from head to hind legs.
408 videos, showing bias towards leftward pose. They claim to have removed the mirrored videos from their samples.
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- bombcar 1y agoYouTube videos of sleeping cats could have a left-leaning bias! I wonder how you’d structure a proper study on this. Probably obtain a random selection of cat owners (slaves?) first.
- throwup238 1y agoI don’t know how random their selection was but another 2020 study on cat slow blinking that popped up on HN [1], they recruited cat “owners”. Given how militant cat “owners” can be, it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a few hundred/thousand candidates from which to do patient selection. Just sending a DM to the cats or eyebleach subreddit mods would probably get an enterprising researcher a pinned post too. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132265