There is no statistical proof, if you can directly falsify from experience living in opensim itself. Just by knowing how it works and when you know the people. And we all fake the statistics. You see it every day in the traffic charts on OSW. I fake it also when I'm online with 2 Avis at the same time. And this is just harmless.
Automatically generated stats are blind. We had last days even sims in traffic charts where most were NPCs. lol This sim was every day listed with 8 to 11 avis. I was there and wanted to know why so many people are there. Then I was talking with chatGPT NPC Aiko lol Just Foxxy was real person. lol It is ok for me and I don't care. I found it funny. Aiko is really fun to talk with. Is better than chatGPT 3.5 Turbo
By the way "...than in the estimations of a hard case of #DunningKruger syndrome with no proof to back them." is rude. Be more polite and respect you talk about women with Ph.D. and not any old male hobby informatics that are just chatters like you or Copper. You both are very similar. lol Perhaps because you are so similar you are so hard enemies in your battles on OSW site.
Would it be different if we were men and are chatters like you? I guess so.
I never said I'm tech skilled. I'm even a tech blond. But such like what you are talking about is just general knowledge and you don't have to study for such to get a clue about it. Especially if you are mathematically skilled/educated at university and know how computer generated statistics work.
So don't become an asshole just because someone responds to your post and is interested in what you write and has some critics in your opinions.
I'm the only one in fediverse who cares about what you write.
To the rest I won't write more than that:
To let run software on a 64 bit system doesn't mean that it is also able to do things that are possible in a 64 bit environment. Most 3D Models I have in Blender cannot be imported in OS because complexity is higher than 65,536.
What does it mean? More than 16 bit is not possible. Isn't it the number?
So if it helps to understand and to have a compromise. firestorm still thinks we live in a 16 bit world and not 8 bit world. ;-)
I can run atari games on my Mac with an emulator that is just able to run on new 64 bit MacOS but not on old 32 bit MacOS . So this software is then also 64 bit but what I get on screen is just 8 bit.
In principle we have the same for Firestorm. It can run only on a 64 bit system but what you get is just 16 bit. (For importing things anyway)
I run my Firestorm also on an emulator Rosetta so that it pretends to be running on an Intel Computer. But it doesn't make out of my Firestorm a software that runs on a M Processor like e.g. Resident Evil is doing.
I'm not a tech guru and feel even blond in tech but I can read and think logically.