This means that fitbit will leave you as either a fitbit addict (if you stick with it), or as someone who's less healthy than you would have been otherwise (if you don't, because now you'll exercise less on your own).
Sorry, my advice is, Google for the whole replication crisis thing. I think I read something about this specific set of studies on slate star codex, so that's a good place to look.
Please pardon that I don't have enough time to look for the sources myself.
No, he's right. I wouldn't have even mentioned Social sciences. Medical studies are just as terrible. We need to question every study. Repeat said studies. Make sure the repeat studies were done right. Then study it again by outsiders.
Yeah, if you're someone who's already spending three days a week at the gym, you probably don't need a Fitbit. Especially in the GP's case where it seems like he may have substituted his gym time with a Fitbit.
There's also a psychology experiment in which people who were paid to argue for a position reported less belief in it afterward compared to people who argued for it for free (but I don't remember the citation). Apparently all of these things may be described as
Due to my intense procrastination, when people say "something that most people don't know" [1] I've usually at least heard of it. But somehow this has completely slipped under my radar. Makes me rethink a lot of how I understand motivation.
[1] (On the Internet, in certain circles, for certain topics.)
rewards are strongly tied to dopamine release in the brain.
suggest watching Ropert Sapolsky's lectures on Human Behavioral Biology [1]. i learned alot from them. i keep rewatching/relistening to his lectures and every time i learn something new.
see http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/10/how-rewards-can-backfire-an...
This means that fitbit will leave you as either a fitbit addict (if you stick with it), or as someone who's less healthy than you would have been otherwise (if you don't, because now you'll exercise less on your own).