-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 - --- 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 - --- 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.
### 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEESYClA57JitMYg1JBb8nUVLEJtZ8FAmIc1z8ACgkQb8nUVLEJ tZ+qZg//e9PvzRRYtzPC61ODABoYzc27v9mmziUSVNWzG13CmMqw8JbWWsI2fKAZ 6iXb2KWNxxTHNyWTavGDDM7lL/KAsqLB69+MI5RmMcBxQ4tc83a8YueuHqDJi3Ay gYmhBwz8gZYArcFDqUQ6nEI1WnbvbnZG8fonxcHm9YMN7PIyOBXb1ziXg0IhhGvl x3TUZWV2Fgm6RLFRE6clTiVTSy2/eJm5sfii+AeJCKj1eTzwBe6mUz0H+mCxEnQg gfCEHHeBlB5NEu7y8ujLqUhx4wCAQCj5aYHfaZB//vyra0Y3w/ZmKIVXd2ok7ybq bFNJjQfmeNMzoRAtacINlZdhpFh2RAWt3LGcDPGjvdCyKB0ywCC1q6EeFhziJuTZ SXS02HnMtmaWiNPKRfwRd28iL1iG8Htq7UiPJ+ER9h8E5y5A0ZpSsnb7w2xV+1Rt r2+MAWIkN4z8B5dBKutRZzGOrmINzbGkm590xy28pRsMpJdjbiwGndWjfbuBxCEO WnAi2y/QPvE2sAmad8MqtBBPTLWDA9/wnPh6zepdc0mMtIt3VzVhkCalcNCSINS3 cQImGO6XFTSO4yBFXO8fuEqqvnNjMZsT/gHgR5qWftG75rENAT9OFD1BmID+bS1X AERObUusEvBT86ffWbHmuENkJA5QAnwgr3n0Li/iRPPjxTPH+Zc= =SqxD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----