No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Yes, that makes sense. But the machine should be able to accurately measure how much work you did, which is the minimum your body burned. If you could trust machines to get that right (which I'm not sure you can), then that number would be useful as a comparison for a single person across different workouts.

Assuming you use the same machine, or another machine that uses the same algorithm, one can certainly compare one workout to the next. The problem is people think "I burned 343 calories. That takes away the burger i just ate." The calorie number is actually a bit contrived.