'You think it’s disruptive to spring ahead or fall backward twice each year? Think about the adjustments you’d have to make if you lost an hour of that spring and summertime daylight,' writes hiltzikm.
from March Madness bracket-picking, password-changing, fantasy football, etc., etc. These aren’t real calculations, but extrapolations based on hopelessly murky assumptions. They’re press-release parlor games, and obviously shouldn’t be taken seriously.
A few things need mentioning about this finding, such as it is. First, it’s based on a single study published by a group of Swedish researchers in 2013.reference to heart attack traces back to this study. I could find no effort to replicate or validate its findings anywhere in the medical literature.
Most important, the researchers noticed that the overall incidence of myocardial infarction for the week following the spring switchover didn’t change at all — there were more cases on Monday, but fewer in the rest of the week. Most reporting on the study glides obliviously over this key fact.
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