I would love to see what (if any) link this has to sleep quality. My instinct is that it's not social media that is shortening attention spans, but rather smartphones that are disrupting sleep...
I would love to see what (if any) link this has to sleep quality. My instinct is that it's not social media that is shortening attention spans, but rather smartphones that are disrupting sleep patterns.
Anecdotally, sleep quality is overwhelmingly the biggest factor in how alert and focused I feel the next day, and I have found that I sleep much better if I read a Kindle or a book before bed than if I read my phone.
Massive - I have more or less trained myself to leave the phone before going to sleep, but found that even reading kept me relatively alert. I've found a well-worn audiobook, preferably for a book...
Massive - I have more or less trained myself to leave the phone before going to sleep, but found that even reading kept me relatively alert. I've found a well-worn audiobook, preferably for a book that I've read multiple times, is the best. That provides the right level of stimulus while I'm awake, but doesn't keep me too hooked as I drift off. I'm generally out within 15 minutes - I find a single multi-hour audiobook will last me for weeks as I end up rewinding to where I last remember hearing.
I do the same exact thing but with documentaries. Every so often I’ll venture into a podcast. Been doing this for as long as I can remember. Had those national geographic vhs tapes when I was a kid.
I do the same exact thing but with documentaries. Every so often I’ll venture into a podcast. Been doing this for as long as I can remember. Had those national geographic vhs tapes when I was a kid.
This might be useful for other studies to justify a closer look. But being a phone survey in and of itself skews your data pretty hard. Also self-reported data is just generally not that valuable.
This might be useful for other studies to justify a closer look. But being a phone survey in and of itself skews your data pretty hard. Also self-reported data is just generally not that valuable.
I would love to see what (if any) link this has to sleep quality. My instinct is that it's not social media that is shortening attention spans, but rather smartphones that are disrupting sleep patterns.
Anecdotally, sleep quality is overwhelmingly the biggest factor in how alert and focused I feel the next day, and I have found that I sleep much better if I read a Kindle or a book before bed than if I read my phone.
Massive - I have more or less trained myself to leave the phone before going to sleep, but found that even reading kept me relatively alert. I've found a well-worn audiobook, preferably for a book that I've read multiple times, is the best. That provides the right level of stimulus while I'm awake, but doesn't keep me too hooked as I drift off. I'm generally out within 15 minutes - I find a single multi-hour audiobook will last me for weeks as I end up rewinding to where I last remember hearing.
I do the same exact thing but with documentaries. Every so often I’ll venture into a podcast. Been doing this for as long as I can remember. Had those national geographic vhs tapes when I was a kid.
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OK this is actually hilarious - a post about memory loss getting posted twice
Doh!
This might be useful for other studies to justify a closer look. But being a phone survey in and of itself skews your data pretty hard. Also self-reported data is just generally not that valuable.