TBH, I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, because there is so much in this comment that belies a fundamental misunderstanding of statistical testing and st

TBH, I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, because there is so much in this comment that belies a fundamental misunderstanding of statistical testing and statistical power, which is the point I was trying to make. > Now there are 8 billion people, so it's worth 16 times less. That is not how statistics works, at all. > In fact, this is why I always trust science in small towns more. In Colma, for instance, you sample 500 and you have covered 33% of the people. These are the sentences that made me think this had to be satire (presumably you want "science" to apply to places outside of Colma...), but in all honesty these days it's really hard to tell.