i'm at sump, on a saturday. trying to figure out what in the world this paper should look like, so going to brain dump here. the problem that i see is that people publish about sleep duration without considering the stability of that duration. what is the point of this? do i think it'll be more clinically useful? yes. i think that people who have stable insufficient sleep duration will be different from people who have unstable insufficient sleep. how in the world do we measure that? from this paper:
duration to assign adolescents into 4 mutually exclusive groups by sleep duration and sleep variability: (1) sufficient-stable, (2) sufficient-variable, (3) insufficient-stable, and (4) insufficient-variable. To classify adolescents into sufficient versus insufficient sleepers, we compared their average sleep duration with the age-specific sleep duration recommendations of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.18 To classify adolescents into stable or variable sleepers, we split them at the median of the individual standard deviations.