Average outside temperature has no impact on my sleep
Study using Oura Ring, VisualCrossing, and WhatSticks
What Sticks (WS) has correlated 362 days of my sleep and outside temperature in the city I live. The result is a -0.07 correlation. This means that when the temperature in the city I live decreases my Oura Ring sleep score increases ever so slightly.
This is not a statistically significant value (p-value = .159).
Below is a chart of all the data points used in this analysis. As the correlation suggests, the chart shows no trend one way or the other. There is a lot of data but hard to conclude that the orange dots (temperature) and the green squares (sleep score) move together in any meaningful way.
Some reasons why this might be the case
· I have furnace that runs in the winter.
· I have a fan in the summer.
· Perhaps removing the days that are hotter and colder where climatization has less of an impact would reveal a different story.
Why do this?
While underwhelming, the title in this article is now backed with my own data. This is not definitive, but it is founded on more evidence than I had before.
This study is personal and that is what makes it more meaningful than other results found on the internet. This is not based on averages from strangers in a clinical study. Clinical studies may be helpful data points, but the one provided here adds a more meaningful data point to my life.
If you would like to learn more or create this same study for yourself, go to what-sticks.com.
