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/ …
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The study is basically an observational trial looking at the difference in risky sexual behaviours in teenspic.twitter.com/kCGf7nqPR3
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The authors split teens into groups based on how much weekday sleep, weekend sleep, sleep consistency, and self-reported trouble sleeping that they had
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Guess what they found? There was no association between most sleep patterns and risky sexual behaviourpic.twitter.com/YKH2NIkiXe
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Here's the results table. I've identified the 4 tests that contributed to all of the headlines, compared to the 14 that did notpic.twitter.com/61etAcGU3X
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If you look at the actual results, the only thing that is consistently related to risky sexual behaviours is the consistency of sleep - whether the kids were sleeping the same number of hours every week
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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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