Do you have any thoughts on what questions we should be asking about this product? Somehow the data collection and analysis once we have the timeseries data doesn’t seem so hard… but the protocol and question design seems very difficult to me.
I wonder if there should be a group where they still get Beeminder’s graph, but they don’t pay anything for going off their road. (In order to test whether the pledge system is actually necessary.)
Thank you. I had forgotten about that.
So let’s say the two groups were, as you suggest:
Tracking food & exercise on Beeminder
Tracking food & exercise in a journal
Do you have any thoughts on what questions we should be asking about this product? Somehow the data collection and analysis once we have the timeseries data doesn’t seem so hard… but the protocol and question design seems very difficult to me.
I wonder if there should be a group where they still get Beeminder’s graph, but they don’t pay anything for going off their road. (In order to test whether the pledge system is actually necessary.)