7 day Steps???

[randombitsofme]

Hello! I have a question....how does the 7 day steps work? Does it go with a weekly start date? I am confused, sorry. Thanks for reading.

[Esya]

If you mean the one listed in the friends list it is a rolling average over the current day and the previous six days.

[randombitsofme]

Yes and thank you! Easy....lol I'm still learning.

[SunsetRunner]

@Esya from what I see in the friend's list it's not an average but a sum. The sum from last 6 days + current day. It even says "ranked on 7-days steps total". I noticed lots of people take the total for an average which mathematically they mean something else. It's worth to emphasise that.

Just to clarify, let's break it down using my own records:

From my records, the last 7-days are:

1. 14588 ( Today )

2. 32170

3. 32694

4. 16750

5. 19178

6. 16262

7. 16114

Average is: 21108  = ( d1+d2+d3+d4+d5+d6+d7 ) / 7

Total is: 147756 = ( d1+d2+d3+d4+d5+d6+d7 )

The total is the value I see in my list of friends as the last 7-days steps number.

It makes great confusion if somebody mixes up those terms as if I assumed I do 147756 steps as my average, then it means I do over ~100k ( sometimes less, sometimes more, this is how the average works ) steps DAILY! This isn't even feasible in day to day activity of somebody working in the office 😄

[Esya]

@SunsetRunner

You are right it is the sum. My mind went too fast during that post 🙂 .