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Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life (nature.com)
conformist 5 hours ago [-]
Interesting topic and seems like a reasonable thing to study. It would be cool to see a study where participants behave in a way that leads to more light exposure in month A and the opposite in month B, randomising the time ordering etc.

Despite power analysis and all the “50 people convenience sample, mostly observing based on what people do anyway” seems a bit like it won’t really lead to any action guiding outcomes beyond vaguely confirming people’s priors? As in, perhaps this style of research is not ambitious enough in a way?

readthenotes1 4 hours ago [-]
Seems like a reasonable thing to do would be to leave England for a month and head for the British Virgin Islands.

I'm pretty sure there's a BBC detective show that shows the increase in cognitive abilities from doing so...

NedF 2 hours ago [-]
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