You know exactly how many and so do we...and it's a number large enough to be inspected as a statistical universe.
That's one hell of a statistical universe.
But the meaning of the numbers cannot be deduced through statistical analysis because the code can be changed long before a useful statistical universe can be reached.
Justice Kennedy replied in dissent that the survey was instead "noteworthy for its incompetence" in being based on anecdotes with "no description of the statistical universe or scientific framework" of the study.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
A really big corporation begins to resemble a statistical universe.
The goal was to create a statistical universe that had some things in common with the "real" universe, whatever that meant at this point.
Three data are not a statistical universe.
So we waited and worried and tried statistical sampling, setting up our statistical universes with great care.
You're just data, that's all; the Chief has some heap big project on the fire-I don't know what it is myself-and he is trying to gather together a large enough statistical universe to be significant.