Why We Sleep
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As a statistician I had a sense that there were quite a few instances of causation being claimed when only correlations were being observed. I am used to this in popular science but I was never interested enough to go back to the original literature to check though. I am glad you have. I especially like the scatters in Appendix 12, the huge variation in those reported figures do concern me (statistically speaking) more than I expected.
I am particularly interested in what you write about depression here. A big part of my trying (and succeeding) to get better sleep is to combat my ongoing struggle with depression. I certainly took the book as a manifesto to sleep more rather than an unbiased critical look at the information. Never did I think sleep deprivation therapy might actually work, I remember chuckling at the idea when it came up. But apparently I was wrong based on that info it can have benefits.

I don't know the relative rates but it has already accumulated ~100 citations https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl...
If you decide to try sleep restriction, I would love to hear if it works or not!
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I haven't yet seen a response from Walker on the issues linked here. Some of them are pretty severe, such as editing a cited graph to remove evidence that runs contrary to Walker's thesis.