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		staticassertion 62 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep qu... Perhaps too meta or off topic but I thought it was funny that you thought their n was low and then cited a story about one person.

gboss 62 days ago [–]

The way I’m understanding it is that it’s more that if there’s a real population of people like his wife, that is only 5 percent of the actual population or even higher, for example, it may not be caught by such a small sample size.

staticassertion 61 days ago | [–]

But that is true of all sample sizes

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