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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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[–] 9 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

A couple of people I know with daily step quotas, will tell me they have done they're daily steps today when walking to lunch and back. Yes, it's like 6 blocks but it's no workout. I think these devices are giving users a false sense of exercise.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    If you set your step quota to 10 steps, you can both hit your quota and have gained nothing from it. This is a problem with users setting quotas too low, not a problem of the device giving bad information.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    There's no real quota to set it to anyway, what's too low or too high is very subjective.

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