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Self-experimentation refers to single-subject research in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Usually this means that a single person is the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment.
Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment are all the same. Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present ...
Through self-experimentation, he set out to solve this problem by varying aspects of his lifestyle, like exercise and calcium intake. [8] After many failures to see an improvement in his sleep, he eventually discovered that delaying breakfast, seeing faces in the morning, morning light, and standing solved this problem. [ 9 ]
Moreover, Washburn's dual role as both subject and researcher could have introduced bias into the subjective reporting of hunger sensations. This potential for bias is a common criticism of self-experimentation, which, while common in early 20th-century research, raises ethical and methodological concerns by modern standards. [18]
The editorial introducing the focus theme is titled "Single Subject (N-of-1) Research Design, Data Processing, and Personal Science" [3] is co-authored by Gary Wolf, who together with Kevin Kelly coined the phrase the quantified self. In the editorial, personal science was described as "self-directed N-of-1 studies".
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