Comment on Moon Dust

• embed_me@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Assuming a representative sample

  That’s the thing I doubt a team of highly skilled astronauts will be representative of the human population

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  • senkora@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think if anything they would be biased towards having fewer allergies than normal people. Which suggests that 0.21% (1 in 500) is a reasonable bound for how rare a moon dust allergy could be.

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Never really verified it but I think allergies are more common in developed countries. If that’s true, that the data is skewed in the opposite direction

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Probably more commonly identified

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