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First thing I see having opened lemmy in bed. Good call. See you later folks!
Pedantic rant, but I hate people saying they “believe” in science. Science is not a matter of belief. It’s the realm of the empirical.
Leave belief to religion and knowledge to science. Mixing the two turns out bad every time.
I quite like that expression. It seems accurate to me, since, as it was pointed out by another commenter replying to you, people do not, in fact, check the experiments themselves, ensure that proper methodology was used, etc. They simply believe what the people in authority positions are telling them, so the word believe is quite accurate - you do not actually know the reasons why certain beliefs, theories are accepted by the scientific community, you just take their word for it.
Furthermore, any scientist does the same thing to the body research that was developed before him, otherwise, every scientist would have to start over.
But you do have to believe though. If you are just a brain in a jar, then all your empirical evidences are just illusions. At the very least you have to have faith that that’s not the case.
I think people are more talking about believing in scientific institutions to ensure credibility and good faith research. Not necessarily that an individual institution is credible, but more the scientific community as a whole can be relied on.
Science is absolute, however the way we interpret and understand it isn’t flawless and at the end of the day some level of belief has to be put into the fallible people behind it.
If science, as it is practised is flawed, by your own admission, what do you mean when you say that it is absolute?
The scientific laws that govern how everything functions from subatomic particles, to beehive structure, to gravity are absolute and unchanging. Our understanding of them is flawed and changes over time, but the laws themselves can’t be changed.
As far as I understand, science is a human endeavour, so I would certainly not say it is absolute, but I see what you mean.
Although I would say, my position is somewhat different, I do not see any reason to believe that even if these “laws” exist, science has at any level access to them, the “nature of reality”, if you will, “laws of the universe” are metaphysical concepts that can only ever be speculative, scientific laws are not interpretations of them, they are separate constructions.
After waking up? I’ve never heard this. My brain turns right back off if I don’t put a screen in front of my face. Have I been doing this wrong all this time???
I wake up to electronic birds coming out of my magic rectangle, i gaze upon it as the tiny sun fills my shell with life for yet another day.
I believe in science. I believe that the study show that (because I haven’t read them). I believe that I will continue using my phone because even with good efforts my body is still killing itself happily.
So, fuck you body. Dopamine rectangle goes brrrrrr.
Hmm, interesting. Somewhat compelling, but:
- it’s a rather small (n=38) Chinese pilot study
- the effect on the sleep latency is sizable (a latency decrease from 31±14 to 18±12 minutes, effect size of 0.85), but there’s no effect on actual sleep duration.
- the sleep measurements were subjective (sleep diaries, not actigraphy)
I’m also a bit concerned why it’s the only study with this methodology in this later meta-analysis - all of the other “behavioral intervention” studies in it experiment with stuff like “extended time-in-bed”. In other words, there seems to not have been any followup or replication of this study.
We must stop this science on science violence.
-> You mean peer review?
Lol, don’t the publications farm that out and review none of it?
-> We must stop this science on science violence!
I think that’s just the corrupting influence of money and power.
-> We use good methodology to show methodology has been systemically compromised.
[citation needed]
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Enough of your borax pointdexter!
Me, who uses my phone before and after bed, with no issues getting or staying asleep: lol
Curious if you use dark mode, reduced brightness, or the feature that shifts away from blue light at night. I use all those and I think that’s why my phone use doesn’t seem to affect my sleep. In fact, I often fall asleep mid-scroll.
Dark mode and reduced brightness 24/7, and I don’t think I use a blue light filter, but the black and white night mode comes on when I charge my phone at night. But I’m also looking at regular monitors until about 10 min before I go lay down, so idk.
Interesting, thanks for the response. Same as my situation except I use the blue light filter on most if not all my devices. I am so used to it, don’t even notice that it looks kind of orange anymore.
I’m running CF.Lumen on Android which lets me turn the color all the way down to 1000k and I’m still so used to it that it’s only “kind of” orange to me. Most people can’t help but comment on it when they see it though. The default “night light” on Android is so weak, I don’t even know why they bother including the intensity slider. It slides from “no effect” to “barely noticeable”. Is there anyone who sets it to anything but full power?
I also go full red-scale after midnight, which is noticeable even to me. Web designers, please check your UI with a grayscale filter to make sure every element has a decent contrast with its surroundings. In the meantime, I can easily switch back to 1000k when the red is hindering me.
Wait, morning phone bad too?
It’s bad for me, but not for that reason.
It’s bad for me because I piss a whole hour or two of my morning away doomscrolling. That makes me late to work. So I end up staying later to make up lost time, I get home late, and then I wonder why I have no time at the end of the day to do anything…
I’m doing it right now, in fact. I will stop.
Same. Gotta get it under control. I’m definitely unmedicated ADD
Lolol I maybe just sit on the throne for 5 minutes longer than I should 😂. But what, am I meant to sit on the throne and read a magazine, like a dirty commoner?? 😤
Perfect description of what I do most days. 😬
I woke up, opened Lemmy, and this was the first post I saw lmao
Same, is this a sign?
No one’s gonna drag you up, to get into the light where you belong.
But just to be clear, I believe it.
I just don’t do it.
Science isn’t the boss of me. Just my body, mind, and pretty much everything else.
reactance theory informs us that whenever a person tells us what to do and how to do it, we respond with defensive defiance because we want to maximize our personal freedom and decision-making.
Just cos I know it’s good advice doesn’t make me want to do it, and if I don’t want to do it, I can’t, that’s just science.
I sleep so much better after I started doing this. Seriously, try it out for like a week/month and you’ll never go back, I swear
Can confirm. I used to have sleep issues (like anyone else in the 21st century). Now I love jumping into bed because I go out like a rock
Science is about finding the rules that govern the universe… And then trying to break them.
I believe it’s bad
Dgaf
Scientism is bad for you
Edit: To all the downvoters, I’m not dissing Science. Science is a wonderous method for finding the truth of the universe. However Scientism is the logical fallacy that all there is to know is known by science already and can only be known by science. Or in essence, treating Science as an infalliable religion, when even scientists will not do that if they value their jobs.
Hey my doc says I got one of them in my eye
