Showerthought: I counted my steps for 3 weeks straight and the math says I walk a mile just going to my kitchen and back | Bad Math, Good Stories - Vivisector
Showerthought: I counted my steps for 3 weeks straight and the math says I walk a mile just going to my kitchen and back
Turned out my phone was counting arm swings as steps, so my "5 mile days" were really closer to 3, and now I want to know if anyone else has caught their tracker padding the numbers like that.
Phones count every little jiggle as a step, so your real number is probably way lower than what the app shows. Same thing happens with those sleep trackers that swear you slept great when you actually tossed all night.