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• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, there’s always going to be outliers, that’s how statistics work. That LD~50~ is 192mg/kg just means that 50% will have died by that point. Some individuals can survive beyond that point, while 50% couldn’t.

  I’m not saying that 50% of the population will be honky dory a-ok after surviving, what killed the first half. Just that it’s not unlikely that you could survive consuming 18l of red bull over the course of 10h23m. You’d probably still be pretty fucked up, but surviving is a subset of being fucked up, not the other way around.

  And claiming that “20g of caffeine could kill a horse”, as someone did in this thread. Well sure, while I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 50l of coffee at once.

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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My point is the LD50 is much lower than 192mg/kg. Even a middleschooler could observe that much…

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My point is the LD50 is much lower than 192mg/kg. Even a middleschooler could observe that much…

      Are you trolling or do you genuinely not understand basic medical terminology or statistics?

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      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Are you dumb enough to think mice are a perfect representation of humans?

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