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Your smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study finds (news.fiu.edu)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1374232/your-smartwatch-is-lying-to-you-about-how-many-calories-you-burned-study-finds

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[–] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wouldn't trust anything to give me accurate calorie counts, it is just way to subjective. Unless it's medical grade equipment it's just not giving you anything but a educated guess

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yup, best you can hope for is consistent. That can be useful in a 'am I good, should I try more, less' way.

    I mean calories themselves are what happens if you burn the food in a bomb calorimeter, which bears little resemblance to what happens biochemically in your body anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Agreed, and same with scales. I dont trust the number on my bathroom scale 100%, but as long as it reads consistently so I can track patterns that is what matters, even if the number itself isn't perfectly accurate. Same goes for calorie tracking via a nutrition app. The aggregate of all this information has a nice intersection that I can treat as a generally reliable idea of how I'm doing.

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