AIBU to disbelieve "there's a lot more crime when there's a full moon"?

[Nickpan]

you know, the lunatic thing

Wow. A whole thread full of confirmation bias. Interesting.

A friend of mine worked in A&E and said the full moon did affect people.

Confirmation bias or people reporting their numerical experiences? So much scientific discovery is based on observations leading to further investigation.

It's a thing! But possibly not the connections being made.

My grandmother called it a Robbing Moon, the light from the full moon means no torch light is needed.....

@Nickpan research it. It appears from your posts that you don't understand what it's about.

We have a great deal of observation of this phenomenon. The relative positions of the moon, earth and sun definitely have real physical effects on our world and there's much ambiguity in our understanding of the human brain.

It's far from superstition, we just have to nail down the underlying mechanisms (and I mean in a convincing way).

Women's menstrual cycles have nothing to do with the moon. The menstrual / oestrus cycle of different female mammals depends on their species biology, other mammals may cycle every few days, or a couple of times a year. Female humans happen to cycle, on average every 28 days, which is similar to the lunar phase cycle every 29.5 days - so humans thought they were connected, they aren't.

Women's periods don't sync either, you just remember when they co-occur in your flatshare.

Periods are not gothic.

@Whitehalleve, wow, I'm the one who needs to do research? :)

Yep!

I find it generally harder to sleep during full moo. Too much light. Maybe this is true for opportunist thieves and mentally unstable so there are just more of them around during full moon.

My deceased MIL had mixed dementia. She was always much worse during a full moon

My kids woke us up 12 times when the blood moon was out, and kids I used to work with who had developmental disorders were always more challenging during a full moon.