• DeadDjembe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    All of science is just a sample. Population trends can be observed in smaller subsets.

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      1 year ago

      I’m aware. My point is that “real life numbers” still have margins of error. The person to whom I’m responding implied that “real life numbers” aren’t subject to a margin of error.