<story><title>Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sleep-a-tale-of-institutional-failure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m tired of the endless posts over Why We Sleep. The book attempts to cover hundreds of studies in an accessible way, and it largely succeeds. It&amp;#x27;s certainly fluffy at times (as are all popular books, by necessity), but if you didn&amp;#x27;t like its message, nitpicking at minor points doesn&amp;#x27;t refute the central thesis, and pretending it does is below the standards of even internet flame wars.&lt;p&gt;Like, this kind of exchange is exactly why academics try to avoid randos from the internet. They tend to seize on one point, declare victory, and refuse to change their minds. And when the academic doesn&amp;#x27;t grovel in compliance, they declare academia to be a failure. As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, UC Berkeley responded perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martingoodson</author><text>Falsifying data is not being &amp;#x27;fluffy&amp;#x27;, it&amp;#x27;s academic misconduct.  You might not personally care about this but academic norms exist for a reason. Universities are trusted institutions precisely because they follow these norms.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why We Sleep: A Tale of Institutional Failure</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sleep-a-tale-of-institutional-failure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m tired of the endless posts over Why We Sleep. The book attempts to cover hundreds of studies in an accessible way, and it largely succeeds. It&amp;#x27;s certainly fluffy at times (as are all popular books, by necessity), but if you didn&amp;#x27;t like its message, nitpicking at minor points doesn&amp;#x27;t refute the central thesis, and pretending it does is below the standards of even internet flame wars.&lt;p&gt;Like, this kind of exchange is exactly why academics try to avoid randos from the internet. They tend to seize on one point, declare victory, and refuse to change their minds. And when the academic doesn&amp;#x27;t grovel in compliance, they declare academia to be a failure. As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, UC Berkeley responded perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>The author of this post isn&amp;#x27;t some rando from the internet. He&amp;#x27;s a really big name in stats. He wrote the main textbooks for a couple topics.</text></comment>