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. maybe the US, you probably would need more than 30 but maybe not 1000.
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grubberfly@mander.xyz 1 month ago
what’d be the smallest sample size that would yield a relevant result?
30? 1000?
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me. Just get me there
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can we not… Just… Bring back some moon dust?
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s the possibility of contamination if we do that.