(Original Post: Announcing the Quantified Health Prize)
I've recently been hired by Personalized Medicine, a new research company trying to bring Less Wrongian rationality to the medical world. We're giving away a $5000 prize for well-researched, well-reasoned presentations that answer the following question: What are the best recommendations for what quantities adults (ages 20-60) should take the important dietary minerals in, and what are the costs and benefits of various amounts?
Entries are now due by January 15th, 2012. This is an update from the original date of December 31st, 2011. However, we will not change this deadline again, and it will be strictly enforced. If you submit your entry on January 16 at 12:01 AM Pacific time, we will not read it.
Why enter the contest?
More info about the contest, and instructions for submitting entries, can be found at the contest website at http://www.medicineispersonal.com/contest/home. Good luck!
Pointer to my post on the other thread -- wondering if anyone giving this a serious shot came up with anything other than a basically dietary mineral only strategy without supplemental minerals.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/8nx/announcing_the_quantified_health_prize/5lbo
Of the entries that took the contest seriously, each clearly has something to contribute to the overall picture. They take different points of view, and I feel far more informed with all of them than I would have been with any one of them. In my mind, the contest was clearly successful.