There's something to be said about a defense of this that doesn't account for random sampling. Assuming that they did a proper sample of said papers, that impl

There's something to be said about a defense of this that doesn't account for random sampling. Assuming that they did a proper sample of said papers, that implies that for whatever domain they sampled, 26% is likely a decent estimate of actual issues. Increasing the scale doesn't make a proportional estimate any better.