The discussion is pointless and was meant as a jest, but > And the question was about the number of people. You included statistics regarding the number of ev

The discussion is pointless and was meant as a jest, but > And the question was about the number of people. You included statistics regarding the number of events. The poster just said "more common". It's your interpretation that this was "a question about the number of people". But that's just one of many possible framings of the question. "The number of events" is an equally valid one.