jamesf comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong
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Quantified Self examples:
Social media example:
Asking about self-perceived attractiveness tells us little about how attractive a person is, but quite a bit about how they see themselves, and I want to learn how that's correlated with answers to all these other questions.
Maybe the recreational drug use question(s) could be stripped from the public data?
Having a calendar with time of when you do what actions is recording of personal data and for most people for timeframes longer than a month.
Anyone who uses Anki gets automated backround data recording of how many minutes per day he uses Anki.
I might be willing to call either of those self-quantifying activities. Definitely the first one, if you actually put most activities you do on there rather than just the ones that aren't habit or important enough to definitely not forget. I think the question could be modified to capture the intent. Let's see...
That sounds like a good question. Hopefully we remember when the time comes up.