Tuesday, April 20, 2010

i am a geek

Actually Todd is more of a geek than I am, but anyway Excel has some great linear trendlining features, and apparently the prediction is that my body fat percentage will end up at just over 10% when PCP is done. AWESOME. This linear trend prediction has a coefficient of determination (R^2) value of 0.9623, which means the models predictive likelihood is pretty good (mainly because the trend of data is pretty stable and easy to predict.)And thus I start a positive feedback loop: I have some pretty convincing math that I will get down to 10% body fat in 5 weeks. Therefore I am consciously and subconsciously motivated to achieve that, thus proving the tautology.I loves me some math!

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  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_%28social_theory%29

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