Population Beats Finding

Two papers can disagree without contradicting each other if their populations do not match.

I was processing dissociation, in myself, and the first research I found said I was wrong about what I was experiencing. On a longer timeline I found newer research that said, wait — maybe the people who claim total amnesia for the criminal acts they are on trial for, who have something to gain from being crazy, are not the same population as everyone else reporting dissociation. The two papers did not contradict each other. Their populations did. The finding was the smallest part of either study. The population was the bigger part.