Last Updated on December 4, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
And is his advice which device to buy helpful for for really serious athletes? Rob ter Horst studied the accuracy of 100 smartwatches:
We could not find a community of scientists which makes scientific studies sustainable and on a regular basis as Rob does in our review:
Have these device been given up by a majority of scientists? If so do Rob ter Horst advice which devices to buy have any implications for other scientists? We did not find any evidence in the scientific literature. Similarly also Nature Reviews Cardiology writes papers about Apple watches. but the title is:
«The Apple Watch can detect atrial fibrillation: so what now?»
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-019-0330-y
As we concluded before consumer grade heart rate monitors have become more accurate in recent years but not in a way so that scientists whould use those on a regular basis and in a sustainable way for scientific research. Is this because the developers of these products tested those previously and concluded that they are not very suitable for scientific research but only to use those as consumer grade heart rate monitors? If now scientists tests those to use those for scientific research is it not only logical that they come to the same conclusion as the device developers themselves who did not publish they internal papers? So is it not only logical as well that the “Journal of the Meditation Research of the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)” as well as the “Nature Reviews Cardiology” comments about these new developments: so what now?