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Why Quantified Self Matters
Seth RobertsTsinghua University & UC BerkeleyBeijing Quantified Self Conference 13 December 2012
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My Acne Experiment•Counted number of pimples each
morning•Doctor had prescribed tetracycline.
Took tetracycline but still had acne •Varied amount (pills/day) of
tetracycline, eventually went to zero/day •Number of pimples didn’t change
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Acne Lessons•Basic: tetracycline didn’t work•Bigger: my doctor was wrong•Even bigger: Can self-
experiment improve on expert advice?
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Examples
•morning Vitamin D & sleep •Shangri-La Diet• flaxseed oil & balance• flaxseed oil & arithmetic speed•butter & arithmetic speed•morning faces & mood
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Morning Vitamin D & Sleep
• Tara Grant had poor sleep • I told her sleep controlled by sunlight
exposure. Sunlight at night bad• Sunlight creates Vitamin D. She was
taking Vitamin D at night. Is Vitamin D at night like sunlight at night?• She started taking Vitamin D only in
morning. Her sleep suddenly got much better
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Morning Vitamin D & Sleep
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Shangri-La Diet
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Shangri-La Diet
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Flaxseed Oil & Balance
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Flaxseed Oil & Balance
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Flaxseed Oil & Arithmetic Speed
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Butter & Arithmetic Speed
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Butter & Arithmetic Speed
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Morning Faces & Mood
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Morning Faces & Mood
•Not as crazy as it sounds •Strong correlation between
depression and insomnia •Effect of faces (happy, eager,
serene) opposite to main symptoms of depression (unhappy, reluctant, irritable)
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Personal Science (my method) versus Professional Science
Personal Science
Professional Science
Fast Yes NoCheap Yes NoSurprises helpful Often RarelyScientist’s health at stake
Yes No
Freedom Yes No
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Why QS Matters
•Supports personal science•Encourages learning from data
rather than trusting experts•what I did = Advanced QS.
Examples show what a difference it can make