I always feel like the moon thing is a bit of a toughie. Ericās question (to me) is asking if the moon affects people significantly via physics and it doesnāt.
I raise that because my experience is that people want to believe the Moon fucks with tides so it must do the same to them, but thatās not really anything to do with how much light hits the moon in any case (and is too weak a force on people).
I certainly believe it can affect people psychologically but only because they believe it does and so it happens. My life is unaffected by the cycles of the moon and my mum has no truck with that (despite believing in a load of ridiculous stuff) so Iām assuming this idea was never passed down to me.
This article is interesting
e.g.
In one study published in 1982 an author team reported that traffic accidents were more frequent on full-moon nights than on other nights. Yet a fatal flaw marred these findings: in the period under consideration, full moons were more common on weekends, when more people drive. When the authors reanalyzed their data to eliminate this confounding factor, the lunar effect vanished.
This may or may not make @ericVI happy.
