Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution

Re:Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the i... by cjensen on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:15PM (#22007641)

That's an interesting phenomena, but it is definitely not what has happened here. The introduction talks about it a bit, but the discussion really gets into it showing why it cannot be measurement error.

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Re:Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the i... by maxfan8 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:48PM (#22007776)

I agree. My favorite part is when they examine average temperature by birth decade within each cohort, under the assumption that differences in birth decade will not affect the accuracy of the measuring technique.

> To minimize these biases, we examined changes in body temperature by birth decade within each cohort under the assumption that the method of thermometry would not be biased on birth year.

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