The reporting on this study is so hilariously broken No, getting less sleep won't cause teens to have unsafe sex This is pretty much entirely wronghttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9212462/bad-nights-sleep-increase-risk-stis/ …
Whether they got enough sleep during the week didn't seem to matter at all. What's gotten the media riled up is the result for the weekendspic.twitter.com/xD8vYCdLgJ
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It looks like kids who slept a lot on weekends were at lower risks of risky sexual behaviours than kids who slept a moderate or low amount
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But the kids who slept a lot on weekends were in the minority! So what these results really mean is that kids who get more sleep on weekends protect themselves from risky sex (maybe because they're asleep instead of...other things)pic.twitter.com/IZdPhTaDdD
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And remember, this is entirely observational research. AT BEST we can say that there's an observed association between some measurements of sleep and sexual behaviours and sleep That's about it
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And the headline at the start of this thread was wrong in basically every way, so there's that too
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