• Samsung lets Galaxy Watch users track their sleep and computes a “sleep score” number. • Recently, some Galaxy Watch owners have noticed their sleep scores rising through the stratosphere. • With no obvious behavioral changes to blame, this may be due to a change in the sleep score algorithm.
Data makes talking about certain subjects enormously easier, and that’s probably no more true than it is for quality of sleep. Sure, you could subjectively rate your experience as sleeping well or not, but it’s long been very difficult to actually compare that with anyone else’s experience, or even track our own experiences night-to-night. Fitness trackers and smartwatches have been absolutely game-changers in this regard, empowering us to finally do some data-driven analytics on what’s probabl