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A comment on 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas. Parent comment
- so many people don't understand statistics or science and
- some beekeepers in Germany wrote a paper. Here's one of the original papers: https://www.farmlandbirds.net/sites/default/files/Orbrioch%2...
The 75% decline number appears to be from two data points from a 220-acre plot.
- People panic, post it here and everywhere else, presuming that:
- proper scientific methodology was used and
- what applies to a 220-acre plot in the German hinterlands must apply to the whole world.
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- so many people don't understand statistics or science and
- some beekeepers in Germany wrote a paper. Here's one of the original papers: https://www.farmlandbirds.net/sites/default/files/Orbrioch%2...
The 75% decline number appears to be from two data points from a 220-acre plot.
- People panic, post it here and everywhere else, presuming that:
- proper scientific methodology was used and
- what applies to a 220-acre plot in the German hinterlands must apply to the whole world.