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NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread for December 9 - 16, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 December 2013 11:33:07AM 3 points [-]

Dan Aspey claims he can do well on 5 hours of sleep, and then makes a further claim that any other adult (he recommends not trying to do serious sleep reduction until you're past 23) can also do well on 5 hours. To judge by a fast look at the comments, rather few of his readers are trying this, let alone succeeding at it.

Do you have any information about whether Aspey's results generalize?

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2013 04:43:25PM 5 points [-]

I am under the impression that nearly anybody who talks about sleep is guilty of Generalizing from One Example.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2013 06:38:00PM 0 points [-]

Not really.