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I wouldnt believe the studies, it is only correlational and they cant control (or acount for) every possible factor that can contribute to low mortality rates. So you can't say 100% that 6 hours sleep definately reduces your mortality rate. Lots of other things play a part too!

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I think they can be reasonably accurate. 'After adjusting for age, smoking, alcohol, exercise, depression, snoring, obesity, and history of cancer and cardiovascular disease, sleeping less than 6 hours or more than 7 hours remained associated with an increased risk of death'. This was a study between 1986 to 2000, looking at just under 83,000 women, which is a huge sample size.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15712344

After all, that's how all trials are concluded, be it the mortality of certain illnesses, the protective effects of certain drugs..well lots of things. And also I guess that's where confidence intervals come into play.

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yer all doomed don't matter how much sleep you all get, your all going to die one day anyway

FACT ;-)

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Just got back to this thread. I'm having a bit of a laugh, because honestly I was VERY VERY drunk when I posted it (having downed the better part of a bottle of whisky). I'd have forgotten about it entirely, but Mrs G informed me in the AM that I had woken her when I got to bed to let her know I'd started a poll and was going to crush her in the results! :)

I really ought to stay away from the computer when drinking, but have had a chuckle at what I posted and some of the brilliant replies.

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aaah crap

here's me swimming in anti-aging creams to preserve my beautiful youth

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+1 but not the anti-again creams, just cider and ice-creams.

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Thanks for the support Sid!

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LOL, BB I will for sure check you hockey-style (rememeber we Canucks have won the gold!) next time we cross paths at Rockingham -assuming I can keep up with my advanced age and grumpy demeanor :D

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Hang on -this graph seems to show that Sleep*Ohms(resistance) increases with age. Therefore resistance to sleep increases as we get older.

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1) I look good for my age :)

2) When I buy milk, I always look for the carton with the longest expiry date... :smt028