The big lie about sleep
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The big lie about sleep
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#2> On the other end of the spectrum is Boulder County, Colorado, which you might call the sleep capital of America
That city is famous for attracting a bunch of people who love hiking and climbing mountains. It isn't a good example here, it is just full of young people who love to exercise, of course they are healthier! Just having an average age of 28.5 years have a dramatic impact on sleep statistics!
There are many other numbers in the articles that are strange, like here they compare average employed people to 13% of unemployed people, that could be true for a single population so it doesn't tell us anything!
> in a 2020 study, 13% of newly unemployed people said they got four hours of sleep or less a night, half of what the average employed person gets
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#3I like that they let you subscribe with Apple Pay, but I wish I could just pay $0.50 for the one article. I would pay. It’d be much less friction than either finding a proxy to read it for free, or subscribing properly and the dealing with the unsubscribe process which can be very difficult.
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#4Ok, I read the article. But I still don't know what the big lie is.
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#5Please the lie is probably to sleep how someone else tells you to so you can be a part of society.
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#6I like that they let you subscribe with Apple Pay, but I wish I could just pay $0.50 for the one article. I would pay. It’d be much less friction than either finding a proxy to read it for free, or subscribing properly and the dealing with the unsubscribe process which can be very difficult.
But if they did that they couldn’t send you to a retention specialist when you want to cancel! And automatically switch to your reissued credit card when the old one expires, counting on you to forget that subscription and be a lifelong customer and maybe even for a few years after if they’re lucky.
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#7Ok, I read the article. But I still don't know what the big lie is.
I think the big lie is that wellness companies, doctors, and sleep widget salespeople claim that you can improve your sleep with blackout curtains, less screen time, exercise, fancy tech, and a host of other strategies. But this article is saying that being healthier and richer improve your sleep more dramatically, and those are things that are not directly in your control.
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#8> On the other end of the spectrum is Boulder County, Colorado, which you might call the sleep capital of America That city is famous for attracting a bunch of people who love hiking and climbing mountains. It isn't a good example here, it is just full of young people who love to exercise, of course they are healthier! Just having an average age of 28.5 years have a dramatic impact on sleep statistics! There are many…
>It isn't a good example here, it is just full of young people who love to exercise, of course they are healthier!
Same how some Eastern European countries like Czechia top alcohol consumption per capita charts, when the numbers are pushed up by tourists going there to get shitfaced.
Touristic cities that attract a lot of people for one thing or the other should just be excluded from some statistics.
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#9I keep telling my kids that a vastly overlooked trick to success is going to bed earlier and getting more sleep. That and gratitude (which is why our family has evening rituals around this).
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#10> When it comes to slumber, what matters most is how rich you are.
Looking at their sleep map, that swath of good sleep down the middle of the country seems to go against that, and isn't mentioned in the article (unless I missed it). Most of Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Colorado aren't "rich", but they get the best sleep. Wisconsin is slightly worse than those, but still rather good, and likely the only reason they're not great is that it's the state with the highest alcohol consumption.