Detecting life would still be a small sample size. You’d need to detect life or rule it out on a variety of planet sizes, ages and compositions at a variety of

Detecting life would still be a small sample size. You’d need to detect life or rule it out on a variety of planet sizes, ages and compositions at a variety of distances around a variety of star types, ages and sizes at varying locations in the galaxy before we’d have enough data to make confident predictions.