Monday, March 17, 2014
Pedometer Testing: Peek at Some of Saturday’s Data
Here’s a peek at one of the charts I made from Saturday’s data.
It looks at the count differences during different periods of time. You can see that biking was problematic for the pedometers–which I knew it would be. I think I’d have to put the pedometers on my shoes to make them count accurately during biking.
But you can still see the tendency of the FitBit to overcount steps, regardless the activity.
I tested the Accupedo pedometer phone app yesterday, but the step count was so far off, it skewed my calculations. Badly.
I turned down the sensitivity (the better phone apps I looked at had a setting for changing the sensitivity), and today’s counts were much more in line with the other pedometers.