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To: Innovative
Hospitals Now Use Consumers’ Personal Habits (from credit card purchases) To Predict Health Issues

Making the assumption of course that individuals consume every item they purchase. I can just hear the doctor now, "Sir, we need to point out that tampons should only be used as feminine care products. As a man, you could seriously injure your health using them." "and about that baby formula, it's very high in calories and will contribute to weight gain, you need to stop using it."

8 posted on 06/26/2014 3:41:25 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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The surgeon on Cavuto pointed out exactly the mistakes and wrong conclusions that can be reached because people don’t just purchase items from just themselves...


9 posted on 06/26/2014 3:46:14 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Making the assumption of course that individuals consume every item they purchase. I can just hear the doctor now, "Sir, we need to point out that tampons should only be used as feminine care products.

Years ago, I read a futurist report from a computer company working with data analysis. They gave a case study called "The Pregnant Gay Man" to illustrate that assumptions can be wrong, and suggested that a gay man could buy a lot of stuff about pregnancy from Amazon to throw his sister a baby shower, and the purchases shouldn't end up in his data profile -- but there would be little way for a computer to actually know why he bought that stuff or to screen it out.

Of course, that was years ago, before there actually was a preganant gay man.

29 posted on 06/26/2014 5:53:55 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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