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<blockquote data-quote="jjne" data-source="post: 2417821" data-attributes="member: 544975"><p>That's not really the point though.</p><p></p><p>The margin of error on these devices would appear to be in the order of 20%. My state of being, and whether I've RTFM or not, has very little bearing on the basic precision of what is being read. If the conditions are the same then the result should follow the same pattern. The results I am getting simply aren't systematic.</p><p></p><p>I am forced to conclude that the results I see are +/-10% at the minimum. For one device to state no change and the other to state a huge change means that the noise in the measurements is huge. This type of imprecision is the difference between "normal" and "hypo" when used on someone lower down the scale.</p><p></p><p>A lot of folks follow these numbers religiously. "This food raises by bg by x points, that food by y points so I'll go with y". But unless the difference is night and day - to the point where you can tell that y is better than x by how much blood drips off it when it's raw - this method is not reliable.</p><p></p><p>It might as well just flash red/amber/green. False precision is dangerous.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, the only choice I have here is to eat blandly for three months and hope I don't get another disaster at the end of August.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jjne, post: 2417821, member: 544975"] That's not really the point though. The margin of error on these devices would appear to be in the order of 20%. My state of being, and whether I've RTFM or not, has very little bearing on the basic precision of what is being read. If the conditions are the same then the result should follow the same pattern. The results I am getting simply aren't systematic. I am forced to conclude that the results I see are +/-10% at the minimum. For one device to state no change and the other to state a huge change means that the noise in the measurements is huge. This type of imprecision is the difference between "normal" and "hypo" when used on someone lower down the scale. A lot of folks follow these numbers religiously. "This food raises by bg by x points, that food by y points so I'll go with y". But unless the difference is night and day - to the point where you can tell that y is better than x by how much blood drips off it when it's raw - this method is not reliable. It might as well just flash red/amber/green. False precision is dangerous. So yeah, the only choice I have here is to eat blandly for three months and hope I don't get another disaster at the end of August. [/QUOTE]
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