For the love of god, 1000 people is not a tiny sample.



It is not enough to keep saying the stats are skewed. Just because testing is done voluntarily, there is no reason to assume the women do not form a representative sample, unless you can suggest a plausible mechanism by which wearker women would be more likely to want to became Aes Sedai.



That's irrelevant.



Really? Do you have a quote for this?



If a lot of those women had already been tested, then where are all the strong channelers that would have been found at the time of the previous testing? Among the tiny amount of novices resident in the Tower before the merger?