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> 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



I'm sure they control for that. I doubt the people doing the study are unaware of the most basic cognitive biases.




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