It seems the real conclusion is that while the phrase captures some vague truth-y reality that people can identify with, it's not a scientific enough hypothesis to even be testable.
If a study did exist and had the 100x figure based on real data, then it would still have been paraphrased enough to get back to the same status and no one would be aware of what the original conditions and assumptions were. So in many ways it doesn't matter if it exists and so it's non-existamce is not the problem that needs fixed, but how we document our knowledge generally.
If a study did exist and had the 100x figure based on real data, then it would still have been paraphrased enough to get back to the same status and no one would be aware of what the original conditions and assumptions were. So in many ways it doesn't matter if it exists and so it's non-existamce is not the problem that needs fixed, but how we document our knowledge generally.