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Moon dust (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

what'd be the smallest sample size that would yield a relevant result?

30? 1000?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Me. Just get me there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can we not... Just... Bring back some moon dust?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

There's the possibility of contamination if we do that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, if humans were a homogeneous population maybe that could work. But just imagine the huge number of factors at play here. Like, demographics, cultural background (different exposures & different allergy rates in general I would guess), genetic susceptibilities, individual lifestyles (e.g smoking) and probably a lot more! Even a sample size of 1000 seems pretty small to test for general human allergy rates to moon dust. If you were talking about just one population of humans, e.g. the US, you would certainly need more than 30 but maybe not 1000.