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Morendil comments on Question: Being uncertain without worrying? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Morendil 20 April 2012 07:34:51AM *  0 points [-]

I've been using MercuryApp to track my mood on a daily basis for a few months now.

One problem: it's very noisy data. I consciously recalibrated my happiness set point sometime in january following Alicorn's strategy, and it's really hard looking at the curve with its ups and downs to tell when that happened.

ETA: I'm not sure the experiment you propose is wise. As far as I'm concerned this is definitely "don't do this at home" science. Depression sucks.

Comment author: fiddlemath 20 April 2012 03:16:25PM 0 points [-]

Actually, given some of the information linked from Alicorn's post, I'll just take increased worry as a solid trigger for depression, and act on that where possible. The added value of information is pretty high, but probably not that high. :P