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by mangamadaiyan 3781 days ago
Do you have any basis for this claim of fact?
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Yes. Extraordinary people are significantly less common than ordinary ones. Therefore, admitting large numbers of people indiscriminately will result in admitting significantly larger numbers of ordinary people. Perhaps I was wrong to say "many" orders of magnitude, but other than that I stand by the remark.
The last part of your claim doesn't follow from your justification. I think I'll leave it at that, however.