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On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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Re: On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing? Is this a koan?

To aid other researchers interested in replication by sharing the methodology and references to other existing research, since other people might find different results.

Re: On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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post #3

No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing? Is this a koan?

I believe this is just a transcript of the ongoing experiment, see "status: in progress". Looks like gwern didn't write up the data yet, they have a lot of other experiments going on at the same time most likely..

Re: On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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post #3

No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing? Is this a koan?

I believe this is just a transcript of the ongoing experiment, see "status: in progress". Looks like gwern didn't write up the data yet, they have a lot of other experiments going on at the same time most likely..

It is an admittedly biased self-study that while very detailed in explaining the approach and methodology is very flawed from a credibility standpoint though.

Re: On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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post #3

No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing? Is this a koan?

I believe this is just a transcript of the ongoing experiment, see "status: in progress". Looks like gwern didn't write up the data yet, they have a lot of other experiments going on at the same time most likely..

Yeah, it's not done. I don't know why you guys are reading it.

Re: On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

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post #3

No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing? Is this a koan?

> No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing?

This attitude is (imho) a major problem in research/academia. If you've done research into something you should report it even if the results were unclear, ambiguous, or non-existent. For one it lets people know if this is a fruitful avenue to pursue and/or whether further study is warranted. It can thus reduce unnecessary repetition of effort. Furthermore, making the findings and methodology public enables people to use it as a starting point for other studies, perhaps varying the methodology or asking different questions on related topics.

Though I think @cypherpunks01 and @WalterSear are likely right about this particular article/page.

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