those who sleep 8 instead of 7 hours are "twice as likely to die"? doesn't everyone have a 100% likelihood of dying, at least for the moment? (cue eugen...). can't blame journalists for sloppy reporting of statistics, though, when one of the most read papers in Plos medicine recently was a study showing that over 70% of medical studies were bogus, simply due to poor statistics.
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 09:06 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Those participants who increased sleep duration from 7 to 8 hours a > night were more than twice as likely to die, mostly from > cardiovascular diseases, as those who did not change their sleep > pattern.
