Talk to Us! Office Hours Tomorrow (Friday)—and Some N of 1 Studies
We’re holding office hours and hoping you’ll join us to talk about Better Humans, the kind of articles you like, and what you hope to learn by following our publication.
Join us tomorrow, Friday (April 2) at 2pm Eastern Time (11am Pacific Time, 18 UTC) simply by following this link. We’ll tweet that out shortly before the start time as well.
Coach Tony, publisher and founder of Coach.me, and I are really hoping you’ll pop in to say hello! We’d love to have an open-ended conversation with you.
N of 1 Quantified Studies
An “N of 1” clinical trial is one where only a single person is tested in the entire experiment.
In a way, you could say that almost every Better Humans article is an N of 1 study, because we publish advice that authors have implemented in their own lives. Though we hold great esteem for peer-reviewed research, we also know that such research is often very limited in terms of what you can apply in your own life.
Many studies are done on an N of one gender, condition, age group, and other characteristics. But real humans are multi-dimensional. Research results that seem promising need to be tested on the real multifaceted person of ourselves.
N of 1 study articles are both helpful and inspiring. They not only give you clues into habits and practices that can be helpful to you, but they provide frameworks for conducting your own N of 1 study. And they can offer some surprising results!
Here are some N of 1 studies we’ve published in Better Humans that you might enjoy.
A Detailed Self-Study on Going Vegan for 12 Months
by Markus Scharnowski
What was the real truth of how eating a vegan diet would affect me? Here’s how my biomarkers changed and what I learned
The Ultimate Self-Tracking Study on Sleep, Caffeine, Alcohol, and More by Max Frenzel
The results of two years of self-tracking with the Oura Ring and personal logging of caffeine and alcohol consumption, HRV, and other data
How to Stop Apologizing Inappropriately
by Alexandra Van Cleef
How I stopped annoying my friends and started taking up space in my own life
How to Live Intentionally in the 21st Century: An Experiment
by Lydia Antonivna Lutsyshyna
Do you ever find yourself doing half of one task, while doing half of another — and doing both badly?
Or take a scroll through our entire catalog of self-experiment design and results: articles tagged Quantified Self.
