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staticassertiontoday at 3:31 AM1 replyview on HN

Perhaps too meta or off topic but I thought it was funny that you thought their n was low and then cited a story about one person.


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gbosstoday at 3:38 AM

The way I’m understanding it is that it’s more that if there’s a real population of people like his wife, that is only 5 percent of the actual population or even higher, for example, it may not be caught by such a small sample size.