They’re absolutely relevant when you’re talking about building a user interface for billions of people. You could put a domestic abuse warning on every single search result page, or you could put it on no pages, or you could put it on a subset of all results; and when you’re already putting it on a subset of all results, you’re making a decision as to which queries to exclude it from, which means you need statistics to decide which pages need it the most.
Look. For any given person, their domestic violence rate is either zero, or one.
Statistics aren’t the end of the story here, or even relevant honestly.
They’re absolutely relevant when you’re talking about building a user interface for billions of people. You could put a domestic abuse warning on every single search result page, or you could put it on no pages, or you could put it on a subset of all results; and when you’re already putting it on a subset of all results, you’re making a decision as to which queries to exclude it from, which means you need statistics to decide which pages need it the most.