For starters, the report claims that iPhone users are more likely to have a graduate or doctoral degree than Android users, and the demographic differences can allegedly skew the results.
Haha! Well, I guess if you want to have indigent people included in your medical studies Android will just have to make their own version of ResearchKit.![]()
This is fantastic and I hope it makes a difference. Stuff like this is what makes Apple a compassionate company. Instead of jut shoveling money around, they are creating systems that can actually improve and hopefully save lives.
They would have to be quite negligent to generalize the results that way. Distinguishing the data through OS platforms (or device types, etc) can be a good way to establish control groups, so the bias is a non-issue.But wouldn't the survey be a little skewed? I mean, don't get me wrong, but iPhone users are a particular kind of group: certain background, enough money to buy iPhones, certain lifestyle... Just saying...![]()
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I'm a little worried about privacy issues.
Also, what happens if someone decided to sign up for one of these things, and then changes his/her mind? Can he/she opt back out of the research?
For all the people complaining that it's US-only, it's being made international in time. Read the original press release.
But wouldn't the survey be a little skewed? I mean, don't get me wrong, but iPhone users are a particular kind of group: certain background, enough money to buy iPhones, certain lifestyle... Just saying...![]()
But wouldn't the survey be a little skewed? I mean, don't get me wrong, but iPhone users are a particular kind of group: certain background, enough money to buy iPhones, certain lifestyle... Just saying...![]()
I'm not sure 99% really have any clue just how powerful and amazing the Apple Watch is going to be, when integrated with this type of capabilities!
Are you that naive in thinking that they haven't thought of this yet?
A team full of medical doctors, PHDs, analysts, engineers, couldn't have thought.. hmm maybe people want to exit something after they signed up.
Sooooooo.......
Before this, did a lot of medical research done in the US include Dutch citizens?? *confused*
....researchers caution that information collected from an iPhone user may be misleading due to various potential flaws. For starters, the report claims that iPhone users are more likely to have a graduate or doctoral degree than Android users, and the demographic differences can allegedly skew the results.
One thing I find really sad about this, is that Apple promoted the 700+ million iPhones the've sold as a way of indicating the scale of this initiative, but at the same time limits participation to the US. As a Dutch citizen I cannot download the apps in the app store. I know this might change "in the future", but still...
Okay, so it's US hospitals conducting the research, but wouldn't more data be valuable?e
I hope all those "kits" that have no consumer hardware o consumer uses yet, to be like downloadable modules.
Right now they took precious disk space in all iOS devices.
There is no hardware or consumer uses for: carplay, home kit and research kit.
Thats Amazing! I really hope they make some breakthroughs with the help of it.
Not to rain on your parade (although I find your characterization of a Apple as "compassionate" cute) but I have huge doubts that health kit will make much more than a tiny blip in the post-marketing space (Don't even get me started on using this for gathering registration data for the FDA or EMA)...
IMHO, the problem is not so much data privacy but the data quality as such. No training, no data curation, no nothing --> Garbage in - garbage out. The bias towards higher income and education among Apple users is probably the least of your problems...