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DdCno1 t1_jcflzkr wrote

Reply to comment by Ok-Walrus4627 in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79

Why would it be? You're breathing that in, after all.

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Ok-Walrus4627 t1_jcfu4wt wrote

Because the air that they’re measuring is from only one part of one’s environment. It’s as if I were to measure the quality of hiking trails and say it represents the overall quality of the mountain

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oakteaphone t1_jcgeb6z wrote

Wouldn't you be more interested in the air quality where someone might be breathing in the air?

Not solely, but more interested?

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