On the other hand, I suspect that some people with high-end PC specs might be more on the “privacy inclined” side of the spectrum, and might prefer not to share data on principle.

Though, if I were to guess, yours is probably the larger influence.

Well, there WAS that thing a couple of months ago where Kilmeade said the quiet part out loud, suggesting we should execute them.

If the design capacity was 25000, it would mean that an assumption that 20% possible error would get you that range.

That seems like a decent “outside approximation” range. Yeah some 3 person apartments will have only 1 person, but some 1 persons will have 3