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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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[–] 8 points 11 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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  • [–] 4 points 8 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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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    I mean, you set it up like that lol. When you set up the activity, it specifically asks how active you are and then sets the default goal based on that. And you have to manually confirm the goal too on the slider.

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