I don't know. I'd say I read your comment, even though I skipped some parts since you were being repetitive.
For example, one follow-up quoted "Taking a sample and taking a census are two different things", which was from a part of your text I explicitly skipped. (I kept track of what parts I was ignoring).
I would still say I read your comment even though I explicitly skipped that part, did not even alight over the area. I literally 'missed it'.
Likewise, if you look through my posting history I've written plenty that is a bit rambling. I don't expect my readers to read every word. Hell, you probably only need to alight on 20% of the words in this comment to get what I'm talking about...
For example, one follow-up quoted "Taking a sample and taking a census are two different things", which was from a part of your text I explicitly skipped. (I kept track of what parts I was ignoring).
I would still say I read your comment even though I explicitly skipped that part, did not even alight over the area. I literally 'missed it'.
Likewise, if you look through my posting history I've written plenty that is a bit rambling. I don't expect my readers to read every word. Hell, you probably only need to alight on 20% of the words in this comment to get what I'm talking about...