“So we have an untold potential 80% of people walking around thinking they are protected who didn’t get jack.”
No, that’s not the way statistics works. If he had tested just one vial and found it to be saline, you would be saying “potential 100%”, but in reality you just selected far too small a sample size to make any accurate determination of the percentage.
>>> No, that’s not the way statistics works. If he had tested just one vial and found it to be saline, you would be saying “potential 100%
I understand your point, but I wasn’t really offering that example of statistical proof. I mean that’s why i said potential... assuming 4 out of 5 is consistent, that’s 80%.
If you really want to get into serious statistics, I would argue there is zero evidence that the 1 out of 5 vials even worked... therefore we are back to 100%.
There... now you can shred more statistics.