Your statement applied to ALL trends. Adding "particuarly large ones" doesn't change that, it just suggest that the point applies to an even greater degree for such trends. You would have had to make your statement something like "only large ones.." to have that effect, but you did not.
So your statement is wrong unless every single trend had fluctuations, not just "large ones, data series, involving large human populations".
More importantly even if your statement was correct, and every single trend of any nature, size, duration, or direction, had fluctuations, your point would still be irrelevant.
A trend, in this case one that fits under your "large ones, data series, involving large human populations" category, can have all sorts of fluctuations, in different directions, of different sizes, over different time scales, but it still is not itself a fluctuation, so talking about it is not talking about "demographic fluctuations". |
