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Re:Activity inequality by synctext on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:14AM (#14775441)
Agreed, there are red flags. All their data comes from this smartphone app (717,527 users):

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As a scientist I would have rejected this Nature paper based on highly biased data collection.
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Re:Activity inequality by jaclaz on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:59AM (#14776628)
I wonder WHO (in the sense of only a subset of a given population) would download and install that "all-in-one" tool.

I would guess:

1) people somehow interested in their fitness

2) people having some dietary issues (more probably believing to be more fat than what they should be and looking for a shortcut to get slimmer)

Customer of type #1 will likely do lots of steps, while customer of type #2 is more likely to do much less.

It is very possible that in whole coutries there is a preponderance of type #1 and in other ones of type #2.

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