Project Discovery Data Bias

I have done a TON of project discovery. I’ve been vocal about it from the beginning.
And as for “No Transits” well yeah, statistically speaking about 10% of the stars in the galaxy should have planets on an orbital plane relative to earth and then that system would need to have a Jupiter sized planet up close to it. so that drives the percentage of slides that should have a planet we can see even lower. So yeah, “No Transit” should be the most common thing. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to learn what transits look like and spot them on slides. I’d estimate about 5% of what we look at should have something we should be able to see / mark.

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