Any new research this year?

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    (P<0.05; 0.00) seems incidental with the study size and honestly I can’t see how could they smell the blood type.

    (I’m not saying they can’t, I’m saying I would like to know how.)

    I’m saying it may be incidental because the paper doesn’t define if the population from where mosquitoes fed had a higher or lower O-type density, nor their distribution.

    • Ving Thor@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yes, you’re absolutely right.

      I read the claim about the correlation between mosquito bites and blood type in a news article where this paper was linked as the source. This teaches me (again) to not blindly trust any news articles without verifying the information.

      Thanks for pointing it out.