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Topic 06

Sleep Tracking

A tracker estimates your sleep; it does not measure it the way a sleep laboratory does. That makes the nightly number less useful than the trend across a fortnight. This hub covers what these devices can and cannot see, which patterns are worth acting on, and how to read your own data without it reading you.

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