The Baseline study is a scientific investigation into what it means to be healthy.
Its other major goal is to complete the "baseline study": an attempt to map a healthy human body, in its entirety.
In a baseline study of financial literacy in South Africa, commissioned by the Financial Services Board in 2012, less than half of respondents reported having a household budget and of those that did, 43% had trouble staying within their budget.
With the help of a Spanish NGO, Asociación Catalana de Ingeniería Sin Fronteras, a community organisation in Cabañas has armed itself with an extensive baseline study of its water and started implementing measures to improve water quality.
In actuality, the bigger ambition for Google's Baseline Study is at once more singular and more complex-sounding.
In some ways, the Baseline Study doesn't sound that radical.
The Google X's Baseline Study project and Alphabet's Art Levinson-led longevity play, Calico, offer motivation enough for the internet giant to build a better remote monitor.
"[T]he Project Baseline study dataset will include clinical, molecular, imaging, self-reported, behavioral, environmental, sensor and other health-related measurements.
Google, Inc., now Alphabet, introduced the Baseline study in 2014 to genomically map 175 healthy human individuals in order to understand the baseline for perfect health.
Regardless of the wearables timeline, from what we understand, the aim is to launch a more open version of the Baseline Study later this year.
There was no qualitative data collected as part of the baseline study assessment.
