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Selection effect

What we need to keep in mind is that we are discovering a lot of weird planets because they are the easiest kind to find, not necessarily because they are in the majority or somehow typical. Massive Jovians circling very near small stars in highly elliptical orbits are easy for our primitive exoplanetary surveys to find, so we are going to turn up a disproportionately large number of them.

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