Something doesn’t seem right about this statement about the nature article:
"The authors show you’ll get more revealing insights by focusing on the inter-individual variation. In other words, you may get more predictive value by looking at changes in your own results over time than by simply comparing your results to the averages of other people."
Although they look similar, the prefix intra- means "within" (as in happening within a single thing), while the prefix inter- means "between" (as in happening between two things). (Merrian-Webster).
So perhaps it should say, “ you’ll get more revealing insights by focusing on the INTRA-individual variation.”
The article behind a paywall, so I did not go the original source to see what is said.
Ah! you are right! My mistake. I've corrected the post -- thanks! (incidentally, you can get full-text copy by asking the authors directly using researchgate.net, something I do all the time)
Something doesn’t seem right about this statement about the nature article:
"The authors show you’ll get more revealing insights by focusing on the inter-individual variation. In other words, you may get more predictive value by looking at changes in your own results over time than by simply comparing your results to the averages of other people."
Although they look similar, the prefix intra- means "within" (as in happening within a single thing), while the prefix inter- means "between" (as in happening between two things). (Merrian-Webster).
So perhaps it should say, “ you’ll get more revealing insights by focusing on the INTRA-individual variation.”
The article behind a paywall, so I did not go the original source to see what is said.
Ah! you are right! My mistake. I've corrected the post -- thanks! (incidentally, you can get full-text copy by asking the authors directly using researchgate.net, something I do all the time)