Dh changes when a full moon

I've known a few autistic adults to be very effected by the full moon every time there is one. These particular people in mind would become intensely emotional and would be aggressive. I'm not sure it's anything to do with the autism but it just happened that they all were. 💁 Their families who cared for them would tell me the same.

Why are you taking this so seriously. It’s not that big, don’t let it ruin your day

Oddly, they care about the data or they wouldn't make claims like "X increases when Y" - what they don't care about is making accurate claims.

Although a popular minoriry belief within the sector, most A&E staff do not believe that the phases of the moon impact human behavior.

Ask anyone who works in an A&E whether the full moon has an effect on people. I've absolutely no idea on the science of it but willing to believe there's something going on!

I couldn’t care less about the data

Clearly.

You’re massively overthinking it, grown adults in professional roles have all noticed, the thread is full of them. I couldn’t care less about the data you desperately need, it’s just a lighthearted debate, chill out

You're confusing my passing familiarity with a large body of studies amd meta analysis on a topic with me having conducted it myself.

You're making claims that not only are not supported by evidence but are contradicted by it. At their core, they are also very stupid and childlike claims, too.

Well this one kind of swings both ways. If it were true, there would be empirical and quantifiable data proving it, especially when so many people claim it. You're telling her she can't possibly have all the information, but you're the one with the hypothesis so it's on you to prove it. And so far, there doesn't seem to be any empirical proof despite all these people insisting it's true and they observe it all the time. It should be easy to prove in those circumstances if it's real.

You can't complain that she doesn't have enough information to disprove it when you don't have enough information to prove it; she could say exactly the same thing back to you. You're making the assertion so you have to prove it. Presumably you do know "all about every single area of the emergency services, the NHS and mental health provisions and completed statistical analysis on all aspects of their business", so... evidence?

Right ok you win, you know all about every single area of the emergency services, the NHS and mental health provisions and completed statistical analysis on all aspects of their business, clearly you have spoken to the moon itself by this point.
Have you considered changing your username to Galileo??

Police forces are not any busier during the full moon, full stop.

I can understand why people believed in the magical powers of the moon in ancient times, when they thought the moon emitted its own light and grew and sharnk over time, but its nutty to me that people in the modern age, who know about the solar system, still think the surface of a rock being more or less in the shade profoundly alters people's state of mind.

My daughter works in the Public Sector and they dread working back shift/nightshift day/night before during and after a full moon. She says the majority of their "clients" are completely nuts during that time.

Crimes are just a fraction of what police deal with, anti-social behaviour, mental health issues, social fallout. It all goes up

Theres a slight uptick in babies being born at full moon too.
No, there isn't. Just a other false superstition.

But researchers have actually broken down admissions by type, including acute psychiatric episodes and behavioral crises, rather than just blanket numbers. "Weird" cases are spread evenly accross the lunar cycle - some people just notice and remember them more when on full moon nights, due to superstition and confirmation bias.

Honestly, what do you think is different about the moon on full moon nights? This is all so whacky.

My Great Uncle was a psych nurse, he qualified in 1938 which shows how old he would be. And he said that eveyone always tried to swap their shifts away from the full moon.

Theres a slight uptick in babies being born at full moon too. I was. (Leo moon!)

Hrft but I think the evidence issue is that they maybe measure numbers rather than behaviours.

So a non full moon night, 5 people come in, with standard problems and normal behaviours and dealt with accordingly. Full moon, you get the weird and wacky, you might only get 4 instead of 5 but you're left scratching your head with odd behaviours.

That study had a tiny sample size and analyzed a brief period of time - failing to account for that the full moons during the period they studied tended to fall on the weekend, when crime rates are generally higher.

Larger, longer term studies, and various metastudies (e.g., analyses of of all the different studies) have consistently shown that there is no increase.

Superstition and confirmation bias. It’s not complicated.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1444800/

here's one study that found a link

But why wouldn't reports if crime increase either?

If more crime was occurring during the full moon, you would expect more crimes to be reported - whether or not arrests are promptly made. There's no increase in the amount of crimes reported, though - just like there's no increase in the number of hospital admissions.

Yes because extra disorder doesn’t equal extra officers, it’s the same number of officers dealing with it and they can only arrest so many people, they’re always running at maximum anyway. Getting extra officers for major events is hard, they aren’t going to get more for a full moon every month!
A lot of it will be more words of warning been given or the level of violence is more extreme but still remains just the one arrest

Why would there be more/different "lunar energies" during a full moon?

"Solar energy" would make more sense, no?

I feel as though a lot of this belief in the supernatural powers of the moon is grounded in a lack of knowledge about the moon and its relationship to Earth and the tides, tbh.

Central scotland. Hang the washing out because its a gorgeous morning then when its just about dry "BOOM" soaked 😢.

But collating statistics on extra arrests, extra reported crimes and extra psychiatric admissions, or length of psychiatric inpatient stays, is easy, as they are documented as a matter of course, and this is what all the studies and the meta-analyses of those studies have looked at. Or are you saying that police on the beat notice more anti-social behaviour and crime at full moon, but for some reason it never translates into extra arrested or crime reports?