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by ZeroFries 3422 days ago
I feel like this is a trick of statistics. Very few people, in general, are 7' or taller, and very few people are the best at basketball.

See (1), and replace "have disease" with "7' or taller", and "test comes back positive" with "good at basketball".

1: https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml