The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications

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Interesting thesis, but...

> The prediction that participants in the sleep condition would have greater discriminability compared to participants in the wake condition was not supported. There were also no differences in reliability.

Society’s treatment of alternate hypotheses as somehow more interesting or sensational than null hypotheses leads to bad science. I think it’s interesting that sleep doesn’t seem to have an effect on eyewitness identifications.

Reminds me of the impact of lunch, on parole judgements: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/judges-mental-fatigue/

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