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The Sip Safe wristband lets you dab on a drop of your drink to test if it's been spiked.
You learn the rules early when you go to gigs, festivals and bars: Always keep an eye on your drink. Watch out for strangers. Be careful who you leave your glass with.
But now an Australian invention could change that (and put less onus on young people -- especially women -- to completely change the way they act when they're out).
The Sip Safe is a wristband designed for concerts and festivals that lets you test for drugs in your drink. Dab a drop of your drink onto the two spots on the band, wait two minutes till the liquid dries, and if the spots turn darker blue, that's a sign that your drink could have been spiked.
It's not the first invention designed to make drink safety easy -- we've seen drug-testing drinkware, sensors that look like swizzle sticks and even nail polish that tests for date-rape drugs.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday April 25 2018, @03:03AM
All your Bayes are belong to us. We were discussing a rounding error, which is < 1%. With a sample size of 101, you have a perfectly reasonable chance of missing a small but > 1% effect. I'm not saying the study is bunk -- I haven't looked into it -- but they'd have to be dealing with ridiculous priors to come up with the sort of numbers we're discussing from a pool of 101 with a high level of certainty.
In my anecdotal dealings with academics, sample sizes seem to often be based on percieved funding and availability rather than preconceived notions about probabilities.