How are large numbers of things like the human population or the number of a particular type of fish in the ocean calculated accurately?

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Does it have anything to do with statistics? Are they actually accurate or just estimates? How much variability is acceptable in case of an estimate? And how do they calculate what the human population was, say, 3000 years ago? I guess I’m trying to ask how large scale censuses work.

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A lot of it is bullshit. Humans – politicians & celebrities – tend to skew all the numbers. Even if it is able to be calculated in an easy fashion, the government will try to portray it as an exaggerated number to suit their agenda. Shut up Superman.

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