Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
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Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
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#2Is this model actually GDPR compliant?
EDIT Either way I definitely don't want to trigger another conversation on the ethics of script/tracking/ad-blocking. I am wondering if this subscribe-with-your-data model is legally compliant with the GDPR. This is not a moral question (or at least I am not interested in a moral answer).
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#3The referenced study [1] showed that taking people out of their regular sleeping patterns had detrimental effects, which is a surprise to nobody. It did not test for the effects of different habitual sleep patterns! Participants were required to engage in one of a variety of different sleep patterns over up to 11 nights, with no consideration given to their normal preexisting sleep pattern.
Our bodies adjust to different behavior over time, and it's only after the adjustment that you can begin to meaningfully compare and contrast different behaviors. Imagine you take random people and require they start running 4 miles a day with no consideration given to the preexisting patterns of physical activity! Well it'd certainly give the media their clickbait of the day as they 'discover' running is bad for you.
[1] - https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...
Re: Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
#4Is this model actually GDPR compliant? EDIT Either way I definitely don't want to trigger another conversation on the ethics of script/tracking/ad-blocking. I am wondering if this subscribe-with-your-data model is legally compliant with the GDPR. This is not a moral question (or at least I am not interested in a moral answer).
Without answering that question, just block scripts on the site and everything loads fine.
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#5Is this model actually GDPR compliant? EDIT Either way I definitely don't want to trigger another conversation on the ethics of script/tracking/ad-blocking. I am wondering if this subscribe-with-your-data model is legally compliant with the GDPR. This is not a moral question (or at least I am not interested in a moral answer).
Without answering that question, just block scripts on the site and everything loads fine.
Really? I get a blank page (umatrix with only first party images and css enabled).
Re: Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
#6Father of two small children: no
Re: Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
#7Father of two small children: no
Father of two here also, and I hear you!
I think the point of this is to say that the negative effects on the body of lack of sleep on the body can't be reversed by the weekend catch up.
That doesn't mean you don't feel better after that weekend lie in or catch-up nap!
I have about 4 years of my life I can barely remember because it was work, on call, broken nights with babies, sleep, work, take turns to nap at weekends. Our second child was called Rachel because the only leisure time we had was taken to watch an episode of Friends every night before turning in and it worked on our subconscious. We had the energy to do nothing more (well, we obviously did one thing more... but I digress).
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#8I can’t speak for scientific analysis, but I can say that if I have had a disrupted week of sleep, a weekend catch up ‘resets’ me and serves its intended purpose (for me)
Re: Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
#9I can’t speak for scientific analysis, but I can say that if I have had a disrupted week of sleep, a weekend catch up ‘resets’ me and serves its intended purpose (for me)
While it may feel this way, the science strongly indicates this is not the case. The study in the linked article is one proof point. Many others are summarized in Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep”.
Re: Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
#10I can’t speak for scientific analysis, but I can say that if I have had a disrupted week of sleep, a weekend catch up ‘resets’ me and serves its intended purpose (for me)
While it may feel this way, the science strongly indicates this is not the case. The study in the linked article is one proof point. Many others are summarized in Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep”.
But if it "feels that way", doesnt that have something to say as well?