Kate Bauer

You know you’ve got a good friend when the person makes you a smiley face out of electronic components because you’re feeling bummed out.

Anyway, I was telling my friend from ITP about how I sort of hit a wall with Ovü , particularly in the whole temperature part of it- nothing uncommon for these kinds of projects, nonetheless quite frustrating.

He suggested instead of ONLY documenting the temperatures taken orally, I also test axillary (or underarm) temperatures and then compare those to one another. Then I could have the control (BBT oral) and variable (BBT axillary), and once the comparison is done, I can conclude a better estimated accuracy or Ovü, as compared to the traditional BBT method.

So excited. Today was the first day of the experiment and it went fairly well. BBT-O and BBT-A (we’ll call them from now on) matched within 0.22 degrees! That is cool b/c they are close enough to one another to imply a direct correlation. The fact that they are not exactly matching is okay, so long as the stats over time match up in the same visual format. If the patterns are the same over one cycle, then the underarm BBT method is solid.