"There is debate among researchers as to whether the concept of sleep debt describes a measurable phenomenon. The September 2004 issue of the journal Sleep contains dueling editorials from two leading sleep researchers, David F. Dinges and Jim Horne.
A 1997 experiment conducted by psychiatrists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggested that cumulative nocturnal sleep debt affects daytime sleepiness, particularly on the first, second, sixth, and seventh days of sleep restriction."
@UristMcDorf Well, in that excerpt from Wiki there are 4 citations (I removed them because the citation numbers were meaningless in this room -- you can check them on the original article though)
15 total citations on the relatively short article, with most of them being scholarly sources
Well, the most cited one (at 2671 citations since 1999, which is reasonably large I think) talks about the "Impact of sleep debt on metabolic and endocrine function"
And one of its claims is "Sleep restriction resulted in statistically robust cumulative effects on waking functions."
So yeah.
There are about 230k articles mentioning "sleep debt" in total, too.
If it's the most cited and reliable paper, won't that necessarily mean that it will continue to be most cited? It's the most popular therefore the most likely to come up in search results? Or is that what you're referring to wrt preferential attachment runaway effects, @Anaphory?
It took me a year and a half to realise that "I sometimes have fun with this game that is unique to the game" does not mean "This game is good", where it's actually "This game is bad, but thanks to its uniqueness it can be fun sometimes"
I'm now working on a magnum opus "inspired-by" game :P
Well, to cite the meta-analysis, "Conclusions: Cross-sectional studies from around the world show a consistent increased risk of obesity amongst short sleepers in children and adults. Causal inference is difficult due to lack of control for important confounders and inconsistent evidence of temporal sequence in prospective studies."
Oh, and @Magician, sorry for pinging you so often today, but this post about levels makes me feel warm inside because I've written a small (and probably shitty) article on levels being mostly terrible a while ago
(the article was inspired by the "fact" that level ruined some games I've been hyped for - Witcher 3, Darksiders 2 - and mentions that Legend of Zelda is my favourite RPG series due to its amazing horisontal progression)
Quite, @LegendaryDude. Or the correlation might not mean anything (less pirates correlate to more oil spills in modern history).
Link to the article if anybody's interested. Shameless self-promotion of an overly-extremist view, but eh, I've always been of the opinion that the minority can afford to be loud.
@nitsua60 Thanks! And I still resist the urge to go to sleep when I know I have to go to [obligations] in the morning.
@UristMcDorf It is true in some ways that skills equate to gated advancement, in that you can't upgrade your ship's equipment without the appropriate skills. But, skills train based on time and nothing else (there's no XP to grind). You "inject" a skillbook which adds it to your character sheet then add it to your training queue and after n hours it's ready to go. It even trains when you're offline.
You do need to acquire skillbooks to be able to train the skills; some can be purchased, others are rewards from corporations or found during exploration.
I feel like the linked answer would make a good template: "This was solved pretty comprehensively for GURPS ________. It comes with an Excel spreadsheet, which is pretty necessary given the calculations required. It isn't specifically for ________, but you should be able to join it up to your game."
I was writing an answer and another answer was posted (actually it was the same answer that I had posted from a different browser tab), and an orange banner appeared at the top of the screen saying a new answer had been posted. I don't recall that being the behavior before. Is that new? If it is I like it; much more obvious than the old behavior.
@GreySage Hah, good point. I guess I should say I like it more than the text at the top of your answer. If you're writing something long you might not see the text there; the orange page banner is obvious no matter where you are on the page.
@Ahriman I voted to close that question as unclear. On the face of it I understand the question but it isn't clear to me what the goal is or what specific problem has come about because of this.
@DForck42 the intention is to run that one some time in February. (Right now I'm swamped playtesting something for which feedback's due at the end of January. Then Feb. 2 I take a group of teenagers to England for five days. After that would come the 5e oneshot.) So right now it's in the brainstorming/skeleton-forming stage.
