• Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    6 months ago

    “Damn, what a coincidence that they only studied people who happened to have it.”

    (jk of course)

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    6 months ago

    Is this why that door-to-door dick inspector insisted on collecting the sperm sample? Didn’t know I was contributing to science. Just thought it was some weird dude’s kink

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      6 months ago

      With 23 of 23 samples, that’s a 78-100% 99% confidence interval (using an adjusted Wald method, which is good for small samples), so the sample size isn’t really an issue. The representativeness of the sample might be a concern, but for whatever the sample generalizes to, this is a high rate.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    The best part of microplastics is that they were a concern in the fucking 70’s and America and the world did fuck-all about it meanwhile the plastic industry lobbied to make sure they couldn’t be regulated and the EPA couldn’t regulate their trade-secrets.