The contest asks for “A recommendation list that tells people what they should do based on their situation, without any additional information or explanation. Keep it as short as possible, but no shorter.”
Are there limits on the sorts of recommendations that are considered acceptable? For example, could one recommend no mineral supplementation? Alternatively, instead of recommending mineral quantities, could the paper recommend a procedure of personal experimentation saying, “take mineral A and monitor the results with process A’, then adjust according to criteria A*, then take mineral B and monitor the results using criteria B’...”
There’s a reason there was no explicit size requirement on the recommendations. They could be one sentence, or they could be a complicated set of conditional instructions, or anything in between. It’s a real life question asking for a real life solution, and time/effort/money required of the patient is one of the trade-offs involved.
Will add this to the FAQ in some form, to make sure it is clear.
I asked a substantially similar question to the organizers, and the answer is basically yes. It seems like it should be obvious that the most correct answer for a company called “Personalized Medicine” is not something like “everyone takes the same multi-vitamin!”
The contest asks for “A recommendation list that tells people what they should do based on their situation, without any additional information or explanation. Keep it as short as possible, but no shorter.”
Are there limits on the sorts of recommendations that are considered acceptable? For example, could one recommend no mineral supplementation? Alternatively, instead of recommending mineral quantities, could the paper recommend a procedure of personal experimentation saying, “take mineral A and monitor the results with process A’, then adjust according to criteria A*, then take mineral B and monitor the results using criteria B’...”
There’s a reason there was no explicit size requirement on the recommendations. They could be one sentence, or they could be a complicated set of conditional instructions, or anything in between. It’s a real life question asking for a real life solution, and time/effort/money required of the patient is one of the trade-offs involved.
Will add this to the FAQ in some form, to make sure it is clear.
I asked a substantially similar question to the organizers, and the answer is basically yes. It seems like it should be obvious that the most correct answer for a company called “Personalized Medicine” is not something like “everyone takes the same multi-vitamin!”