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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Naomi Wu 机械妖姬

      Yeah I RTed the other thread initially but I looked at the research about how much using a digital sensor increases accuracy of readings compared to eyeballing in the wild and it's significant Just blithely calling the digital tests "waste" is a bad takehttps://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1301786032136835072 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Naomi Wu 机械妖姬Verified account @RealSexyCyborg
      Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate in the lab, 75% accurate in the wild due to misreads- mistakes which are highly dependant on education and socioeconomic status. No, it is not stupid or wasteful to use a hardware interface to help women with this. https://archive.is/20081206110632/http://archfami.ama-assn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9755740 … https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301707401024827392 …
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      People often have a kneejerk negative reaction to "waste" and don't really think it through Hence we absorbed years and years of complaining about too much single-use plastic packaging and all of a sudden are all getting vividly reminded why we invented it

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      But yeah pregnancy tests are really obviously something where there's a reason people want them to be single use instead of a "reader" where you have to take out the test strip, clean the device and replace the strip to reuse it All extra steps where things can go wrong

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      I don't actually know what the stats are on how many people who use pregnancy tests are "heavy users" (i.e. people trying to get pregnant every month) vs "one-time users" (people trying NOT to get pregnant having a pregnancy scare)

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      But the latter group is a substantial market, and they would have no use for a 50-pack of tests however cheap it was, and even if they're quite poor, $7 for a 2-pack (which is all they really need) is not all that much money In return for peace of mind

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted foone

      Yeah so looking this over this is just really thoughtless and condescending The reusable reader has no use case The whole use case of the disposable digital reader is the "terrified teenage girl" scenario or similarhttps://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301741893852696576?s=19 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      foone @Foone
      BTW, one thing that should be said about the argument that this is actually easier to read: You could totally design this in a reusable way to use the cheap test strips. You'd just use them and insert them into the device to have it read them.
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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      I mean pregnancy tests specifically are not my lane or my area of expertise or whatever But single use disposable shit in general actually does usually exist for a good reason and people tend to constantly use disposability for cheap dunks without thinking it through

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020

      Like if you actually think about it at all telling the average person in desperate need of a pregnancy test at the drugstore that for the same money they could get a reusable reader with a pack of FIFTY pregnancy tests is incredibly fucking stupid

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    9. M K. Eesl‏ @mkees1 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I mean I wish I had. Even without issues trying you might do two a month (because you jump the gun and test early, then second thoughts) for like 2-7 months.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mkees1

      Okay but my point kind of was (correct me if I'm off base) that people who are TTC and getting tested regularly are more likely to just buy the regular test strips

      3:20 AM - 4 Sep 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mkees1

          Like the "terrified teenage girl in public bathroom" scenario is an extreme one but that's kind of obviously the person who'd be paying $7 for a 2-pack even though the regular strips cost 1/10 as much

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. M K. Eesl‏ @mkees1 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Well terrified teenage girls almost always have like a friend they make go buy the test because they are too embarrassed. That friend should get her a bulk strip set. Cause once she's the girls with the hook up other random a will start calling. :)

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        2. M K. Eesl‏ @mkees1 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Of my sorta pregnancy group really only if they been trying for more then six months did they bulk buy strips. I literally didn't know the reusable readers existed. There are a bunch of little things I learned being pregnant I didn't know before actually.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Sep 2020
          Replying to @mkees1

          Well, just for clarification, were you buying the regular strips where you look at it and see if there's two lines or the electronic digital ones

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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