Thread: E-readers 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn
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Old 12-27-2014, 03:16 PM   #124
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
The report extrapolated the results from a scientific study of an extreme configuration of a single model of tablet to apply to not only all immediately pre-sleep reading via that model but all pre-sleep reading with any "light emitting" reading device. That makes the anecdotal, unscientific assumption that that model is representative of all "light emitting" reading devices.

A completely unwarranted conclusion IMHO.

The BBC leapt from that to: "E-books 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn"

So, it is not only "light emitting" reading devices that are bad for pre-sleep reading, but electronic books themselves. I would call that egregious overstating.
The study specified light emitting devices. The researchers didn't write the headline, and the person who wrote the article probably didn't either. Don't make the mistake of damning them for the actions of a headline-writer.
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