A statistically insignificant number can be significant

Divide 25 by 300 million

25/300,000,000 = 0.000000008333333 = 0.0000008333%

25 is the number given by the TIME magazine of people who caused the financial meltdown. A scion of a wealthy political family of ex-presidents, a former president who during his term of office signed into law allowing business mergers in the financial sector, a former professor of economics and senator who represented an international bank and a slew of bank and mortgage company managers would be numerically a statistically insignificant quantity.

A thirty-year-old man dies from a car accident in 5 seconds. 30x365x24x3600 = 946080000 seconds

5/946080000 = 0.00000000284965331 or 000000284965331% it is so small that it is insignificant.

For 30 years this person was alive but within 5 seconds he was dead from an accident.

Statistics can be deceptive when the numbers have equal value. As can be seen above the 5 seconds and the 25 people are insignificant. But putting a value to the 5 seconds equal to the driver's life and 25 people means the financial meltdown then it is significant in both cases.