Yes, I see your point. Basically I mentioned the Kepler mission results, without providing the relevant link[0]. Right there you can see that super-earths are q

Yes, I see your point. Basically I mentioned the Kepler mission results, without providing the relevant link[0]. Right there you can see that super-earths are quite high in frequency. However, I remember a talk held sometime last year (or maybe this year) where the mission team talked about the Kepler results and they specifically said that super-earths were now the most common planet type found. But I can't find it, and can't back that up with a strong source. What's more, looking at the published results[1], gas giants are far more frequent (and that would line up with the selection bias you noted). The only thing I can think that would back the claim about super-earths, would be considering them on radius alone, in which case yes, the 2 < R ≤ 6 R_Earth class is the most common class[1]. Edit: I was looking mainly at the mass results (in which case a SE is any planet between 2-10x Earths mass), not the radius results. But then, the definition is still a bit shaky, with different criteria[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)#2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)#2011 [1] https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail.html https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth#Definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth#Definition