You specify a style for citation! By your own logic, this should be of academic-level rigour, surely? Pleading ‘oh it isn’t supposed to be convincing’ is the exact same motte and bailey that Matt Walker is doing with his pop-sci that he self-cites.
This is an amazing bit of work, and one of the main reasons I come to LW is to find interesting, well-supported arguments that make me revise or at least question what I believe about important stuff. This does that, and I want to send it to everyone I know. But it’s hard to do so when you undermine your credibility at points (in basically the ways that All-American Breakfast has outlined).
People are going to be motivated to preserve their dearly held beliefs about sleep, and you give them unnecessary ammo to dismiss you as an internet crazy.
You specify a style for citation! By your own logic, this should be of academic-level rigour, surely? Pleading ‘oh it isn’t supposed to be convincing’ is the exact same motte and bailey that Matt Walker is doing with his pop-sci that he self-cites.
This is an amazing bit of work, and one of the main reasons I come to LW is to find interesting, well-supported arguments that make me revise or at least question what I believe about important stuff. This does that, and I want to send it to everyone I know. But it’s hard to do so when you undermine your credibility at points (in basically the ways that All-American Breakfast has outlined).
People are going to be motivated to preserve their dearly held beliefs about sleep, and you give them unnecessary ammo to dismiss you as an internet crazy.