Last semester, I recorded my daily step counts and pages read. I hypothesized on a no-longer-available blog entry that exercise and reading might be inversely related. The results are in: yes, they are. There is a -0.37 correlation between pages read and steps made on any given day. All in all, I read over 4,600 pages and took about 618,000 steps, though some of those pages and steps didn’t make it into the analysis due to responsible data set trimming.
I admit to missing a small handful of articles, but I read nearly everything that was assigned for every class. My reading broke down by class to about:
- 800 pages for SI 840
- 860 pages for my thesis
- 3,000 pages for CSCS 501
If you click on the graph, you can see the full-size information graphic on Flickr.
December 29th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
That’s very cool, though it’s a shame the activities are (somewhat) mutually exclusive, seeing as how they are two of my favorites.
It’d be interesting if there were a non-subjective way to record how you felt (I realize this is contradictory) each of these days as well to see what kind of balance between the two led to, well, balance.
January 5th, 2007 at 1:12 am
you count your steps?
i mean, ¿¿¿you count your steps???
January 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Sure, I count my steps. With a pedometer. I’m not that unusual in this; witness the community at http://www.walkertracker.com/