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What's Your Poo Telling You?

What's Your Poo Telling You? is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand What's Your Poo Telling You? rather than just read about it. In short: What's Your Poo Telling You? is a book for adults describing different aspects of human flatulence, defecation, diarrhea, and various feces-related phenomena. The book sold well upon its release and in 2009 the book was reported to have sold over 400,000 copies.

Key takeaways

What's Your Poo Telling You? belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect What's Your Poo Telling You? to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of What's Your Poo Telling You? from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

What's Your Poo Telling You? is a book for adults describing different aspects of human flatulence, defecation, diarrhea, and various feces-related phenomena. The book sold well upon its release and in 2009 the book was reported to have sold over 400,000 copies. It was authored by Josh Richman and gastroenterologist Anish Sheth, M.D. It includes diagrams provided by illustrator Peter Arkle. The book was followed up by two companion pieces, What's My Pee Telling Me? (2009) and What's Your Baby's Poo Telling You? (2014). Merchandise tie-ins for the series include a daily calendar, log, mobile app, and an activity book.

Bibliography What's Your Poo Telling You? (2007, Chronicle Books) What's My Pee Telling Me? (2009, Chronicle Books) What's Your Baby's Poo Telling You? (2014, Chronicle Books)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with What's Your Poo Telling You?

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what What's Your Poo Telling You? claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to What's Your Poo Telling You? before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about What's Your Poo Telling You? ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of What's Your Poo Telling You?

In research: What's Your Poo Telling You? appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses What's Your Poo Telling You? in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: What's Your Poo Telling You? is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2007 non-fiction books, Books about feces, Chronicle Books books, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for What's Your Poo Telling You? outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study What's Your Poo Telling You? in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what What's Your Poo Telling You? means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain What's Your Poo Telling You? out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is What's Your Poo Telling You? in simple terms?

Why does What's Your Poo Telling You? matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study What's Your Poo Telling You??

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on What's Your Poo Telling You?.