Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

[javaboy32]

1-2 Hours Extra Sleep Helps Kill PainAn amusing little article... I'd agree in principle that sleep can help things, but there's a couple of things painfully wrong here

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[vindaloo_vixen]

Yeah - I can see how this might help for general occasional pain (after all, getting a good amount of sleep is generally beneficial, all things being even), but it doesn't seem it would be so hot for serious or chronic pain (unless there's something the article isn't mentioning).

I'd've thought six healthy people would be more like a 'control group', experiment-wise.

[javaboy32]

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I hope they're now going to find 100 people with sufficiently knackered backs to compare to their six dudes!