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Comment author: paulfchristiano 27 April 2016 01:07:29AM *  0 points [-]

Such as in the body, dealing with tightly regulated and critical aspects of metabolism like oxygen consumption.

I meant, changing a level by 1% probably won't have a huge effect (e.g. 1/2 of a standard deviation) unless that level is itself controlled by a homeostatic process (or else has almost no variation).