How Metrics Affect Each Other
by Kevin 6 comments
I’m excited to announce a brand new feature on lifemetric: relationships. Relationships are the calculated similarities from one metric to another. They are found on the right sidebar of your home page and user pages:
Let me take a moment to explain these results:
- My mood is directly proportional to the amount of sleep I get
- My mood is inversely proportional to the stress in my life
- My stress is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I get
Generally the results can be interpreted as such:
| Coefficient | Interpretation |
|---|---|
| -1.0 to -0.7 | strong negative association |
| -0.7 to -0.3 | weak negative association |
| -0.3 to +0.3 | little or no association (filtered from view) |
| +0.3 to +0.7 | weak positive association |
| +0.7 to +1.0 | strong positive association |
We’re working on making these results a little bit easier to interpret at a glance, but the inital results have been quite intriguing.
(For the statistically-inclined, these are product-moment_correlation_coefficient">Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, calculated from each pairs of metrics you are subscribed to and update on a regular basis.)_
