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I'm not sure. I weight myself everyday. Some people tell me not to do that but its honestly pretty good at keeping me in check and because I weigh myself every

I'm not sure. I weight myself everyday. Some people tell me not to do that but its honestly pretty good at keeping me in check and because I weigh myself everyday I know that sometimes I just get super bloated and put on four pounds of water and it will be gone in a couple days. When you get more data you learn to adjust how you interpret it and make better decisions. Likewise, if getting a false result 50% of the time becomes common (this assumes we never improve the tests) then people will know to adjust their priors. After all - I've had to go to specialists a few times for extra tests. I wouldn't say we ban those.

shard 5y ago
Yes. I meticulously tracked every calorie I ate for several months. Now I know how much of different types of food is how many calories, how many calories I eat per day, and most importantly what my different hunger levels mean in terms of the number of calories ingested. Combined with my weight tracking, which tells me my set weight / weight variance over a day or several days / food intake to gain or lose a certain amount of weight, I can easily control portions to hit my weight goals without thinking about it. I would imagine more health data would allow me to optimize in this fashion as well. If I can correlate health markers to my lifestyle often and directly, I can make better and more informed choices. Advocating against easy access to health data because some people can misuse it is the same kind of nanny state thinking that says encryption shouldn't be available to the masses because criminal enterprises can use it to hide their activities.