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title: "Self Experimentation with Social Media"
author: Greg
layout: post
permalink: /2019/05/self-experimentation-with-social-media/
date: 2019-05-12 11:55:03 -0400
comments: True
licence: Creative Commons
categories:
  - quantified self
tags:
  - experiments
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Self experimentation helps me become the best version of me. Declaring my experiments before seeing the results keeps me honest. This is the first of many planned self experiments.

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  <img width="75%" height="75%" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/experiment.gif" alt="Experiment GIF" title="Experiment GIF">
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### Social Media's effect on my self reported happiness

**Hypothesis**

Exposure to social media is negatively correlated to self reported happiness.

**Experiment**

I will use [Memair DNS](https://memair.com/dns) on my computer & mobile device to pseudorandomly block social media on 50% of days. Every morning of the experiment, I will self report my happiness on a scale from 0 to 10 using [Memair emotions](https://memair.com). The nature of the pseduorandonly blocking leads to runs of blocked days followed by runs of unblocked days. In order to counter cross-over effect, the first two days after a state change (from blocked to unblocked or vice versa) will be ignored.

The experiment started on the 4th of May and will run for 60 days. The [results & calculations](https://github.com/memair/experiments/blob/master/2019-05-04%20Social%20media%20effect%20on%20self%20reported%20happiness.ipynb) will be published on GitHub.

I welcome any feedback, comments, or advice on experiment design. Make a prediction in the comments below!
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