How do they come up with the correlation of CO2 emissions and planting trees?

Question

I recently saw this: “An average router consumes 6 watts of electricity an hour. Leaving a router on for a year creates about 24 KG of CO2. If you switch your router off for an average of 8 hours a day, that’s the equivalent of planting one tree.” I have no idea what flair this falls under.

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Answer 1

Statistical averages take a reasonably large sample size of each event and assume that this is representative for all examples as a general concept.