{"id":456,"date":"2006-01-09T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T00:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=456"},"modified":"2006-01-09T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T00:38:53","slug":"on-mediocre-reporting-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"On mediocre reporting of research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/09\/AR2006010901561.html?nav=rss_education\">article on the sleep research involving adolescents<\/a> today.  As is typical, the interviewed researchers claim that teens&#8217; diurnal clocks run later than either younger children or adults.  And as is typical, this article doesn&#8217;t mention whether the researchers controlled for the schedules of the teens. Without doing so, it&#8217;s tough to say whether the biological measures are a cause or consequence of behavioral structures such as after-school activities and jobs.  Does anyone reading my blog know this literature well enough to answer that question?<br \/>\nWithout knowing more, I&#8217;m agnostic on the research and any policy implications. Since I have a teenager in the household, I will readily admit to my older child&#8217;s wanting the world to run later.  But so does my 10-year-old! And for that matter, I&#8217;d appreciate not waking up before 5:30, either. This doesn&#8217;t say anything about the research, of course, but then again neither does the article&#8217;s discussion of school schedules! This strikes me as the 2005\/2006 equivalent of articles about uniforms&#151;changing schedules, like requiring uniforms, would largely be window dressing on the structure of schools, unless there&#8217;s some rigorous evaluation of the scheduling experiments. And maybe we could try other things, such as forbidding teens from working past 8 pm on schoolnights, as part of child-labor restrictions?<br \/>\nMaybe instruction might be important, too. I could <em>always<\/em> wake up for a good teacher at 8 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another article on the sleep research involving adolescents today. As is typical, the interviewed researchers claim that teens&#8217; diurnal clocks run later than either younger children or adults. And as is typical, this article doesn&#8217;t mention whether the researchers controlled for the schedules of the teens. Without doing so, it&#8217;s tough to say whether the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-7m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}