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gwern comments on My simple hack for increased alertness and improved cognitive functioning: very bright light - Less Wrong Discussion

54 Post author: chaosmage 18 January 2013 01:43PM

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Comment author: gwern 27 March 2013 10:02:55PM *  1 point [-]

If anyone is curious, my estimate of a potentially similar effect based on the weather would require a self-experiment of only ~70 days. I hope someone does run one.

EDIT: with additional data, the correlation has shrunk and so the necessary n has increased substantially to 1600 days.

Comment author: chaosmage 27 March 2013 11:07:45PM -1 points [-]

Weather has too many confounders.

Birdsong, for example, has quite apparent anxiolytic effects.

Comment author: gwern 27 March 2013 11:47:07PM 1 point [-]

Er... yeah. Confounders are why we would be interested in running a randomized experiment in the first place, and hence be interested in issues of experiment design like how many days of data we would need.