[FRIAM] do animals psychologize?

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I agree that taking data is good.  My argument was against intervening too much or too often.  One of the suggestions I give to people who ... uh ... take offense ... when you talk about how much they drink, is to simply *count* their drinks.  That data, like weighing yourself, shouldn't make you feel good or bad about yourself.  But it can help you understand how many calories you take in.  Of course, it's dirty data.  Your typical dive bar will pour you a 9 oz glass of wine ... for $5, whereas your fancy-pants wine bar will pour you 5 oz and charge you $11. 8^)

On 09/17/2018 11:27 AM, Prof David West wrote:
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> Weighing yourself everyday is actually an excellent way to promote weight loss. So too frequent, even hourly, measures of heart rate, glucose level, etc. Not because you do something in reaction to the measure, simply because it causes a kind of Hawthorne Effect, that forces you to intentionally  take, or refrain from taking, some kind of action - like eating that sixth doughnut.

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