That would be compelling if there were planets up to a certain size. However, that's not the case. You have increasingly large planets, a big gap, and then incr

That would be compelling if there were planets up to a certain size. However, that's not the case. You have increasingly large planets, a big gap, and then increasingly large planets again. It's a bimodal distribution, which implies some other factor at hand than just the law of averages.