I think this XKCD is related to the local/global phenomenon you’re talking about. For a statistically chaotic measure, if you take enough samples, one of them is bound to randomly exhibit the behind you’re looking for (a warming period, say, or heart disease) simply by chance.
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I think this XKCD is related to the local/global phenomenon you’re talking about. For a statistically chaotic measure, if you take enough samples, one of them is bound to randomly exhibit the behind you’re looking for (a warming period, say, or heart disease) simply by chance.