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I wonder what dogs' ability to detect general sickness is. It would be good to have a control with other sicknesses.
by ErikVandeWater 6y ago
I wonder what dogs' ability to detect general sickness is. It would be good to have a control with other sicknesses.
- BurningFrog 6y agoDogs, at least some breeds, can detect enormous amounts of "smell" information. Only problem is how to make them tell people what they sense. Maybe some kind of dog brain MRI would be able to get the info directly?
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- jansan 6y agoAt least they can detect some forms of cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_cancer_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_cancer_detection
- amenghra 6y agoI have heard about dogs helping diabetic kids control their glucose level. Eg https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-year-boy-diabetes-dog-monitors-blood-sugar/story?id=53849723 https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-year-boy-diabetes-dog-monitors-...
- amelius 6y agoIf you have another illness, you shouldn't be on the streets either. Therefore, it doesn't reduce the usefulness of the test.
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoAssuming it's an infectious illness.
- coliveira 6y agoI guess nobody will know until we have methodologies that test the odor of people. We don't have. But at least we now have ML techniques that could be used to do that in the future.
- cptskippy 6y agoI don't think they even know definitively that it is odor. The dog could be working off any number of nonverbal cueues.
- coliveira 6y agoThat's right, but we need to start from something we know dogs are very good at.
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoOccam's razor applies here as well.