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by delbel 2785 days ago
this happens to me. Also I would get "phantom calls" right before my phone was about to ring. Sometimes I had leg twitches when I kept my phone in my pocket, that I thought was just a pinched nerve, but my phone would then begin to ring. I no longer store my phone in my pocket and have not had phantom calls/leg twitches. Placing my phone near a speaker I could correlate that the frequency of the twitches matched whatever frequency the phone pinged the tower. Not proof but very suspicious.

Interesting enough I have been disabling my wifi at home at night because I was challenged to see if I felt a better deeper sleep. I did, but I have not ruled out placebo effect. I want to randomize this somehow and record which days I think it is off (depending on my sleep) vs days it is on, to rule this out. I am horrified that EMF could be affecting me like this if it is true. I live in an area without other wifi, 3g, or 4g. I do not own a frequency counter, but that would help me eliminate other interference for better test results.

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This type of uncontrolled self-experimentation is extremely fraught with bias and is not a reliable way to reach a conclusion at all. For example, you discount all the times you get a leg twitch and your phone doesn't ring. You probably don't even register it. Your muscles most definitely are not activated by 1-3GHz radio waves broadcast at less than one watt. Otherwise you'd be dancing like a marionette 24/7.

And the sleep experiment is even worse. How do you quantify "better deeper sleep?" Please don't spread this kind of anecdotal pseudoscience, it just makes the rest of the world more uninformed. The more confidence you have in your objectivity and expertise on the subject, the worse your bias gets. People who work with tech have to be doubly sure to control for bias.