Alexey Guzey - Is Matthew Walker Lying to Us About Sleep?
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Sleep and Mortality
The data between sleep and mortality that we have is based on self reported amount of sleep. And it appears that people over estimate how much this sleep quite a lot. The average difference at the mean of six hours measured sleep was 48 minutes, meaning that when someone actually slips for six hours. So combining this to facts,. It appears that actually people who sleep was six hours but report on average that they sleep for almost seven hours.
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