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by unparagoned 1870 days ago
I think you are right that you'd expect them to be correlated. But I think we need to look deeper at mortality rates and the amount of sleep.

Its probably due to reverse causation. If you are ill then the best thing you can do is sleep, so ill people sleep more. Its not that sleep is bad. If those people only slept say 8h then their health outcomes would be much worse. Basically if you are sleeping 11h then you should be worried about an underlying medical condition, not from the actual amount of sleep itself