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by matheusmoreira 2241 days ago
> If you are counting fingers and toes you would not be surprised if all 96 participants had 10 of each.

It is absolutely possible to find people with an abnormal number of fingers or toes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodactyly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly

If 100% of the studied humans have 10 fingers and 10 toes, something's wrong with the study. In this case, the problem is the extremely small sample size: it simply doesn't represent the general human population. In the article author's case, a programming error caused these results.

0% and 100% are always suspect no matter the context they appear in.

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You're nitpicking the example, rather than responding to the underlying point.