🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@AmpBenzScientist A control group, depending on what they are tested, would have to never have contracted the virus.

@lucifargundam That and the fact that they are thinking of all the times they overheat wearing black in summer and are less likely to recognize the times in winter they were cold wearing black, partly cause in winter they just wear a jacket to compensate for the color.

@Zest Agreed.. I call myself anti-sexist and not feminist.

@khird The percentage of the sphere around you taken up by the sun is 0.00001205% everything else around you is several degrees below 0C. Overall the suns influence is not significant enough.

If you want to do a practical test in the middle of winter take an IR thermometer and point it at the sun when the sun is low in the sky. The sun will only take up a small portion of the cone and most of it will encapsulate the sky around it. The IR temp you measure will be surprisingly low (10 - 30C). Considering the IR thermometer is seeing on a small portion of the sphere of influence itself the actual total IR temp experienced across the whole sphere would be quite a bit below body temp.

@Zest I agree... but you are using feminism more to mean "equal rights for people of all genders"... sadly thats what feminism SHOULD mean, but in practice it rarely does, at least among those who claim to be feminists.

@xarvos

Its established science. The physics term is called "blackbody radiation" and describes how black things radiate heat and likewise how white things are poor heat radiators.

@Pat

@rchrd yes seriously

@realcaseyrollins sadly that is very often the case.

@TheMadPirate

Nah the new due process is "Guilty until proven... ya know what, just guilty"

@waltercool @ChristiJunior @icedquinn

Great poll but surprisingly the majority are incorrect. The answer is "white clothes". The reason being is that blackbody radiation is symmetric. A black object obsorbs IR heat faster but also emits it equally as fast. White on the other hand insulates against it.

Since the IR temperature in the arctic is far below body temperature the net effect of wearing black would be to loose heat where the net effect of wearing white is to retain heat.

@khird Because the IR temperature int he arctic is far below your body temperature. The sun is low int he sky so the IR temperature is already low. But it also makes up a very small percentage of the number of degrees/sphere around your body with everything else being extremely cold in terms of IR. So the overall incident IR temperature is far below body temp thus causing net loss.

@ChristiJunior

Sure, have fun with that.

@icedquinn @waltercool

@Bajax As you wish, that is your right of course. At least for now (maybe not much longer aand that would be sad)

@khird No, actually in the arctic the ideal would be something white to all wavelengths, but especially white to IR. The reason being is you want to retain your own body heat and as such white will cause less of your IR heat to be radiated.