Pedometers for Dummies

Classic pedometer design

Pedometers are hot right now – well, actually, "wearables" are hot – so you can expect a lot of incompetents to come out of the woodwork and blather about step counters. We're talking folks like SuperJenny at Seekyt.com, a worthy who inflicted the rubbish called "A Pedometer Using for Weight Loss – How a Pedometer can help you to Lose Weight" on  unsuspecting readers. As a public service, Jenny's next post really should have been about "How to Relieve Headaches Brought on by Tortured Prose"...

If there was any question at all that Jenny (or should we call her[?] "Super"?) is another of the non-native English speakers who routinely spin some article they found somewhere else and post the results at a content farm, that question disappeared in the first paragraph:

"A measuring device will be an amazing tool for anyone UN agency is attempting to become a lot of intended regarding exercise. There’s one thing inherently encouraging regarding seeing the quantity of steps that you just have taken in an exceedingly day – or the quantity of steps that you just have to be compelled to take – so as to achieve any given activity goal."

But wait, there's more. Do you know how many steps the unnamed "authorities" recommend that you take in a day? According to good ol' Super, it's "ten, 000 steps" which, if your stride length is "two.5 feet" works out to about five miles. Jenny informs us that increasing your step count by 2,000 steps every day will result in "thirty six, 500" additional calories burned over the course of a year for a potential weight loss of almost "ten. 5 pounds."  We were originally confused by the triple repetition of the random-seeming phrase "UN agency," but after a little thought, we decided that Jenny's spinning program had seized on the word "who" and decided it was the acronym for World Health Organization. What a maroon...

Here at the Antisocial Network it's our daily custom to hand out the Dumbass of the Day award for bullshit content like this. Today, we hand out two: one to SuperJenny and a second to the morons at Seekyt.com who allow rubbish like this to contaminate the web. It's small wonder that places like Seekyt are now merely roadkill on the information highway.

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