Wuzzy
Thu, Jun-27-02, 20:56
An interesting find:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chance99/142.roberts.pdf
The above article is amusing to read, describing how n=1 data
is powerful mostly because of very low risk of confounding,
Cause and effect are easy to establish and you can determine a
significant finding right away and start learning something
new. (ex. The author finds that consuming flavorless foods, in
her case water with fructose, allowed fewer kcal and caused
alarming body weight loss..)
Basically this is the ideal model describing diary-logging: a
record of what is going on. you can assses various variables
at the same time and it doesn't take much time:ex. you want to
know whether sleep, music(1/0), busy day at work(1/0) have an
effect on body weight or kcal intake for breakfast you can
keep a record maybe even only 2 weeks to determine, even
monitoring 100 variables at once is easy: ex. exam today y/n,
number of people had lunch with etc.. Date Time Grams kcal
bweight hungry? Active? music? sleep happY? 27-Jun 1 0 8 1
27-Jun 2 . . . 0 8 1 27-Jun 3 0 8 1 27-Jun 15 0 8 1
Apparently there are people who actually do this as the weight
registry asked a question about people who monitor in a
journal their food and weight progress, body temp..
read the article, amuzing..
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chance99/142.roberts.pdf
The above article is amusing to read, describing how n=1 data
is powerful mostly because of very low risk of confounding,
Cause and effect are easy to establish and you can determine a
significant finding right away and start learning something
new. (ex. The author finds that consuming flavorless foods, in
her case water with fructose, allowed fewer kcal and caused
alarming body weight loss..)
Basically this is the ideal model describing diary-logging: a
record of what is going on. you can assses various variables
at the same time and it doesn't take much time:ex. you want to
know whether sleep, music(1/0), busy day at work(1/0) have an
effect on body weight or kcal intake for breakfast you can
keep a record maybe even only 2 weeks to determine, even
monitoring 100 variables at once is easy: ex. exam today y/n,
number of people had lunch with etc.. Date Time Grams kcal
bweight hungry? Active? music? sleep happY? 27-Jun 1 0 8 1
27-Jun 2 . . . 0 8 1 27-Jun 3 0 8 1 27-Jun 15 0 8 1
Apparently there are people who actually do this as the weight
registry asked a question about people who monitor in a
journal their food and weight progress, body temp..
read the article, amuzing..