Collecting data should be a habit separate from analyzing data.
You might be right or you might be wrong. In a sane world someone would run a study to give us data to answer that question.
But we don’t live in a sane world. Our mainstream nutrition researchers are not interested in answering that question. They rather fund huge studies that gather self reported eating reports and try to interpret those self reported eating reports to tell us that we should eat certain food over other food.
That’s an awfully specific use mode you ask for.
I’m asking a companies who are in the business of scale production to think about optimal data presentation.
I would want a company like Withings to either make the display fully programmable. Furthermore I would want them to run a study about which way of displaying data is best.
Scientific trial setup:
2000 trial Withings. They get sold with a rabate. Each user who gets them agrees to the trial and that the weight data of the trial is allowed to be published afterwards anonymously.
There are 10 different scales modes. In the first two years of using the scale the user will be logged into the scale mode that supposed to be tested.
After a year is up you go and analyse the data. Which information display was best suited for helping people lose weight? You go and publish that information in a good journal.
Then you go and tell newspaper journalists about your new study which shows that measuring weight in a certain way helps people lose weight. Coincidentally the way to have a scale that displays weight that way you have to go out and by a Withings.
That story is good in the sense that newspaper journalists would probably be happy to write about it.
I would even do a bit of the PR work myself when I do the next QS media interview (I have done >10 in the past).
You might be right or you might be wrong. In a sane world someone would run a study to give us data to answer that question.
But we don’t live in a sane world. Our mainstream nutrition researchers are not interested in answering that question. They rather fund huge studies that gather self reported eating reports and try to interpret those self reported eating reports to tell us that we should eat certain food over other food.
I’m asking a companies who are in the business of scale production to think about optimal data presentation.
I would want a company like Withings to either make the display fully programmable. Furthermore I would want them to run a study about which way of displaying data is best.
Scientific trial setup:
2000 trial Withings. They get sold with a rabate. Each user who gets them agrees to the trial and that the weight data of the trial is allowed to be published afterwards anonymously.
There are 10 different scales modes. In the first two years of using the scale the user will be logged into the scale mode that supposed to be tested.
After a year is up you go and analyse the data. Which information display was best suited for helping people lose weight? You go and publish that information in a good journal.
Then you go and tell newspaper journalists about your new study which shows that measuring weight in a certain way helps people lose weight. Coincidentally the way to have a scale that displays weight that way you have to go out and by a Withings.
That story is good in the sense that newspaper journalists would probably be happy to write about it.
I would even do a bit of the PR work myself when I do the next QS media interview (I have done >10 in the past).