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[โ€“] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

(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.

[โ€“] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

This guy mosquitoes.

[โ€“] ving_thor@lemmy.world 2 points 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.