https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat...
Nothing that your mind has enough edges on to try to interpret, but vaguely human-like.
>The participants reported not previously using noise to help them sleep or having any sleep disorders.
All this study said was that people who didn't need noise to sleep had their sleep disrupted when noise was introduced. It has absolutely no implication for people who use noise to help them sleep.
Meaningless trash.
Eh. People condition to an environment, and someone conditioned to something like pink noise wouldn't have the acclimation issue (and they either specifically selected for people who don't use noise machines, or they just randomly got only people who don't), and it might drown out smaller environmental noises that otherwise would have disrupted their sleep. It would take a much longer study to determine this.
Or hey, maybe those insecure sleep masks tracking EEG and other things will give us some insights eventually. People just need to harvest the data from the other services.
Arguments like 'well, it works for me,' or 'I took this med and recovered immediately,' or 'I saw X happen right after a vaccine' are not valid refutations. Science is frequently counter-intuitive and often contradicts our personal experience and gut instincts. That is precisely why we rely on the scientific method and statistical rigor—rather than individual perception—to establish evidence.
Scientific method, statistical rigour...eh, this looks like a headline chasing study.
Unfortunately too expensive and large to set this up in the bedroom to help me sleep nowadays.
Absurdly low n. Additionally, I've become very skeptical of anything coming out of sleep labs after my wife was sent to one (at a prestigious teaching hospital) by her doctor some years ago: the 'sleep opportunity' was lights out at 9pm for 8 hours, and the staff were wholly indifferent to the fact that she's a night owl and prefers to sleep after midnight. Additionally she reported that it was not particularly quiet or dark.
I am not a fan of noise machines but I have noticed that I sleep best on rainy nights, which has a similar average sound spectrum, and is about the same as the sound of your blood circulating near your eardrums. Testing pink noise along with aircraft noise (which is closer to red noise) is equivalent to just making the noise level higher with slightly more midrange energy. Some noise can be relaxing for light sleepers; too much is just annoying.
not be of any particular quality.
Do your homework.
Come on guys. Replication crisis has been fully documented
n=25? Seriously?
This is barely passable as an early hypothesis test before you perform an actual study.
Bratmon•1h ago
And yet the conclusion is about pink noise vs silence. We may have a new textbook example of HARKing right here!
gnabgib•1h ago
> The results, the researchers said, suggest not only that earplugs—which are used by as many as 16% of Americans to sleep—are likely effective, but also that the overall health effects of pink noise and other types of broadband noise “sleep aids” need to be studied more thoroughly.
ggm•1h ago
What if the intensity was modulated as a function of the dB of externally sourced sounds?