The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Activity

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Post by ApicalDendrite » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Activity
blog.fitbit.com

Re: The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Activity

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Post by stevespang » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

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Re: The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Activity

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Post by exochrono » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

Fascinating. To be honest I'm surprised the declines aren't more significant. I guess it just goes to show how sedentary many of our lives already are xD

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Post by cataflam » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC

exochrono wrote: post #3

Fascinating. To be honest I'm surprised the declines aren't more significant. I guess it just goes to show how sedentary many of our lives already are xD

I'm going to make a wild bet that active FitBit users are not representative of the population on that matter, and will try to maintain a higher level of activity.

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Post by bmsleight_ » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:22 PM UTC

I am using my one exercise unit a day to make sure I keep my steps/walk/runs up. (Although not on fitbit)

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:24 PM UTC

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Post by lgleason » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:37 PM UTC

It would be interesting to see if sedentary lifestyle causes of death go up if the lockdowns are prolonged.

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Post by randyrand » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

How does fit bit have this information? What is their privacy policy?

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Post by philipov » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:49 PM UTC

randyrand wrote: post #8

How does fit bit have this information? What is their privacy policy?

Don't you remember when they released the movement paths of everyone globally and it was possible to see the location of military bases, based on activity, even though the data was "anonymized"?

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Post by peeters » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 7:49 PM UTC

> ¹Some of the year-over-year change in activity may be due to weather or shift in holiday schedules.

Yeah that's going to be particularly significant for certain countries. Obviously globally, the year-over-year trend is significant, but if you're going to plot it in such a way that emphasizes certain countries, it would be good to know if e.g. Spain also had rain this past week but not this week last year.