[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know, I was joking. However, it would be a great way of showing people why "trans people" should be used instead. "Oh, you don't like being called cispeople? Feels demeaning? So please use trans people, thanks."

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    While there's definitely a distance at which you could teleport a durian at which it would form a cute micro-comet, it would be practically invisible. Comets are huge things, 100s of meters to kilometers across. The only way you'd be able to appreciate the durian micro-comet would be if you were right next to it. Conveniently, you'd also be able to appreciate the "you" micro-comet you'd form.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    And this is why I linked the article first instead of the paper.

    The line you're quoting is the authors explaining they have a large enough sample size to detect differences. They could detect a 4.2% difference in their sampling of women with 97% confidence, at a 5% significance threshold. They are saying they are extremely confident they would be able to detect a difference, but didn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well, the "vaguely summarised studies" were the answer to the exact issue you are raising. If that article was too long, then here's the paper itself:

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0040503

    As it is even longer and even less approachable than the article, I will condense it even further: A group of Hanza, who are hunter-gatherers, had their metabolism measured. Under the commonly held assumption, group of people who spend their whole day travelling on foot, foraging and hunting, would consume more calories.

    However, the study found they used and consumed the same amount of calories as any other group. They weren't more "efficient", they burned the same amount of energy walking as any other group. Even through the average distance the men travelled daily was 11km.

    So yes, they do burn hundreds of calories every day walking, with a total daily calorie expenditure no different than somebody in the western world that has a 30 minute jog in the morning.

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