Apple Watch’s sleep score factors in what time you go to bed, how long you sleep, and how often you’re awoken. I don’t think it’s scientific proof of how restful sleep is, but I do like knowing these stats!
That’s how you know the placebo is working. If it tells you you slept well, you’ll believe it and also feel like you’ve actually slept better even though there is not a drop of truth in it. And even now, whether you believe me or not, the placebo effect will still work. It’s proven that people that know that they will be ‘tricked’ still experience the placebo effect.
Apple should put its money where its mouth is here. Give the sleep monitor feature a double blind mode. Let you put it to the test. For however many nights you set, it will record your sleep patterns and guess a score, but not show you it til the end of the test period. Each day of the test period, you rate the quality of your sleep without being able to look at the score. After the test period, you can see if it does any better than chance.
I’m sure that’s part of it, but there’s definitely also a significant factor of if I only get a few hours of sleep it will give me a bad score, and it can definitely tell if I was sick or restless while I was trying to sleep.
FYI: sleep scores are bullshit and have no scientific basis.
Gamification of sleep is harmful to your health.
Sleepmaxxing
I can’t believe BBC stole my idea.
Apple Watch’s sleep score factors in what time you go to bed, how long you sleep, and how often you’re awoken. I don’t think it’s scientific proof of how restful sleep is, but I do like knowing these stats!
I definitely do feel better on days when my Apple Watch gives me a good sleep score vs days where it gives me a bad one
That’s how you know the placebo is working. If it tells you you slept well, you’ll believe it and also feel like you’ve actually slept better even though there is not a drop of truth in it. And even now, whether you believe me or not, the placebo effect will still work. It’s proven that people that know that they will be ‘tricked’ still experience the placebo effect.
Apple should put its money where its mouth is here. Give the sleep monitor feature a double blind mode. Let you put it to the test. For however many nights you set, it will record your sleep patterns and guess a score, but not show you it til the end of the test period. Each day of the test period, you rate the quality of your sleep without being able to look at the score. After the test period, you can see if it does any better than chance.
I’m sure that’s part of it, but there’s definitely also a significant factor of if I only get a few hours of sleep it will give me a bad score, and it can definitely tell if I was sick or restless while I was trying to sleep.
100% agreed. But usually when I get a low sleep score, it’s because I got like four hours of sleep >.>