Critical data point missing: Time on floor. It follows that more time could very well equal greater effects. Needs testing.
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I dunno if it’s real or not, but it’s not as good as the three second rule:
I apologize for the lack of data. The time on the floor was < 5 seconds. Hence the proof of the truthiness of the 5-second rule.
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Needs more autotune.
The Five Second Rule is real in the sense that that’s how long your short-term memory lasts. In your brain, anything that you observed less than five seconds ago is still happening right now. Like, for example, your food still being OK to eat.
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The key thing about semi-tongue-in-cheek studies like this is that they hopefully get the public to understand that science is about probabilities, not absolutes. People like things like the “five second rule” because they want to have a rule that has a binary outcome. The idea that food has some probability of being contaminated by being dropped on the floor and that probability is based on many factors including time but also type of floor is more complicated but is also more realistic in regard to the choices people need to make in regard to their health in general.
*being-sick-in-own-mouth-noise
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