Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds

Re:Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds by aurareturn on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @06:54AM (#43331180)

True. I think most people care more about trend lines than anything else. If it isn't accurate, at least let it be consistently inaccurate.

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Re:Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds by mvonballmo on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:52AM (#43371370)

I like to say that I don't care if it's inaccurate, as long as it's precise.

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Re:Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds by eudhxhdhsb32 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @07:28AM (#43371823)

FYI, precision is an entirely unrelated to accuracy, whether consistent or not.

Precision is basically just how many decimals your measurements have.

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Re:Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds by maccard on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:32AM (#43371531)

Trend lines are way more important for pretty much everyone. Anyone who cares about absolute numbers is either focusing on the wrong thing, or is doing vo2 max tests on the regular and knows the numbers on their watch are trends anyway

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