The machines lied to us!
Stop the presses! Cheapo technology might actually be lame. Things that seem too good to be true, may actually be the scathing commentary this blog false. This story from the BBC claims that cheap pedometers may be off by as much as 60%.
The BBC-
“Thirty-five volunteers, aged between 20 and 60, each tested 30 cheap pedometers. The readings given by the gadgets were compared to those produced by a sophisticated automated step count log. In many cases the pedometers over-estimated the actual number of steps taken.”
In other news, thirty-five volunteers, aged between 20 and 60, each read 30 articles in back-issues of “Seventeen” magazine from the late 90’s. The depth of emotion stirred by reading the articles was compared to those produced by after reading “The Kite Runner” by Kahled Hosseini. In many cases the magazines were crap, and the amazing piece of literature was still considered fantastic.
Good to know, but we kind of already knew.
Full article after the jump.
Pedometer Readings ‘Not accurate’ – BBC (pops)
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