[Sca-cooks] A/S Entries and Experimental Design was Sausage

[Huette von Ahrens]

Um, Daniel, the standard gestation period of a normal human woman is 9 months, 
not 8 months, so if you were to do such an experiment and did it from one
Pennsic to the next, if said condom would fail, your subjects would have
three month old babies [give or take a week or so] the following Pennsic.

I would hate to be part of your "control" group who would get sugar paste condoms
instead...

Hu ... um, errr... Maire, yes, that's the ticket!

--- Daniel  Phelps <phelpsd at gate.net> wrote:

> Was written:
> 
> But how would you prove to the judges  that the condom actually works?
> I have heard rumors that there is a RevWar reenactor who makes sheep bladder
> condoms and will make the ribbons that hold the thing on in the appropriate
> regimental colors.  Truly the mind wobbles.
> 
> In the case of "the hole" I did get some of the judges to test it for
> comfort.  Hypothetically one might offer the items, with period
> instructions, to the judges for testing.
> 
> It should be noted that Consumer Report recently tested latex condoms.  One
> might use their methodology to determine loss of integrity.  That being
> said, purely as a hypothetical, I suggest that one would have to define the
> item's original intended purpose(s) in period, i.e. contraception vs.
> disease prevention, and also determine what was considered successful use in
> period.  Presumably success in the short term would be that "the raincoat"
> stayed on in "the storm" and that it did not leak.   One could make up a
> batch of such reproductions, solicit their use by consenting adults at some
> major war, Pennsic perhaps.  Proper experimental methodology would be to
> have the subjects of the experiment read a set of period instructions for
> use, and then fill out before and after use surveys in order to quantify
> short term failure rates for various designs.  Long term success would be
> harder to define.  Perhaps if one had a sufficiently large experimental base
> and the intend use was indeed contraception one could do a follow up the
> next Pennsic as it would be 4 months past the gestation period.  Of course
> the experimental subjects would have to pledge to use the items throughout
> the test period, i.e. the two weeks of Pennsic.
> 
> While I do not intent to do this hypothetical A/S project it does suggest to
> me that an article regarding how such a project could be done might be of
> interest.  A "how to" article detailing documentation, experimental design,
> construction, testing and results.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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