New blog looking at working 10-hour days, stroke, and why it's much more complicated than the headlines said: Working Too Hard Isn’t Killing Us Allhttps://link.medium.com/ziO4PLrLYX
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The basic idea is that working 10+ hour days for 10+ years was associated with an increased risk of strokepic.twitter.com/zvFlO36C3S
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The problem is that the study didn't control for any social confounders, so it's very hard to know if that association was meaningful at allpic.twitter.com/RsYus6TYwX
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Given that the job you work is incredibly intertwined with social status, it's hard to know what to make of the results
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Moreover, the absolute increased risk was very small (~0.5%), because stroke wasn't common in the sample, so it's even less meaningful to the individual
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This is even more important when you remember that most people don't choose to work long hours, they do it because they have topic.twitter.com/MNlGn5KV1A
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The blog goes into more detail, so have a read
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Oh, also, something I didn't mention in the blog - the relationship disappeared for high-paid workers, making it even more likely that this was due to residual confounding and not a direct causal effect
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