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 …
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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.
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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
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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
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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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