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by smitty1e 623 days ago
> they assume that the cross-section of relevant information to which they are privy is sufficient to adequately understand the situation

Is this not the Central Limit Theorem[1] ?

Nobody this side of Eternity is working with a full data set.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem