"The lab has tested their new technology on 1,488 WiFi-video pairs, drawn from a pool of eight people, and in three different behind-wall areas, and achieved an overall accuracy of 84% in correctly identifying the person behind the wall."
Yeah I often do exactly 62 trials with 24 combinations (eyeroll)
Of course, even if all people involved were white, and even if it was a deliberate reference, as long as there's nothing other than the number, no one should get in trouble for that. Under no circumstances should researchers be worrying about the numbers they come up with. If you're doing 420 trials at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, so be it.
Cf. this thread: "Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899