[OC] I tracked my mood on a five point scale every day for a year (October 2021 - September 2022)sshheelleeyy OP t1_iqyzba3 wrote
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Good question. This layout seemed pretty intuitive to me as I'm a woman and experience hormonal (and therefore emotional/mental) fluctuations on a monthly cycle.
no-name-here t1_iqzmmie wrote
Your explanation of why this format could make sense is excellent - before hearing it I had thought it might not.
After seeing the results, do you feel like this format is useful in that it partially disproves your original idea, as it seems like your high/low points seem to differ a lot from each month to the next - middle third, first third, last third?
girnigoe t1_ir0jhk6 wrote
also female & I was over here trying to count out sets of 28 days or wondering why you used calendar months. i came to the comments thinking “well i can’t obviously see her cycle & tbh that doesn’t make sense”
bliswell t1_iqzmxy4 wrote
Well if it it works for you then it's a success. And I'm not a woman, so again I have no basis to say what's needed. But my understanding is that a woman's "cycle" isn't literally fixed at once per month. So resetting your data into groupings by month obscures the natural periodicity which occurred.
dailycyberiad t1_iqzw0eq wrote
It depends. For me it's a 28-day cycle, but others have a 30-day one, or a 25-day one, or nearly random cycles... maybe OP does have a monthly cycle, it does happen.
no-name-here t1_ir43sq6 wrote
Even if it’s only around a month but not exactly one month, this format would still be best, as this format would show such data in a spiral shape? or what format do you think would work better/best?
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