Self-tracking: the people turning their bodies into medical labs | Life and style | The Observer
"The goal isn't to figure out something about human beings generally but to discover something about yourself," Gary Wolf once wrote. "Their validity may be narrow, but it is beautifully relevant."
Also, it starts narrow, but who knows how wide it can get? While individuals may not have the analytic skills or medical knowledge necessary to make reliable discoveries, if thousands of app users are creating data, scientists may be able to detect patterns that suggest more well-founded relationships between an input and an output.
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