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Re:Health dangers of sleep deprivation by alorimer on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:48PM (#16954615)
> men in Japan who sleep less than six hours a night are 400-500% likelier to have a heart attack

Seriously? People who sleep less might be at risk of all sorts of health problems, but not necessarily because they sleep less - people generally sleep less because they're doing [strenuous or destructive activity]. And it's much more likely that partying / working late into the night causes health problems, rather than solely the lack of sleep.

Correlation ≠ causation

Re:Health dangers of sleep deprivation by vertexFarm on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:15PM (#16954749)
I'm sure they control for that. I doubt the people doing the study are unaware of the most basic cognitive biases.