Let

t_n = a_n * t

be the objective thought content contained in event n;

Then the total thought content T in N events is given by

T = Σ a_n * t

Suppose the following law is empirically observed: As N tends toward infinity, the sum T approaches proportionality to the number of events N; in other words,

T = aN

where a is a constant, an empirical average amount of thought content for a single event. (The larger the series of events, the more that larger and smaller events “cancel out”.)

The total thought content T can rise for two reasons, since it is a product: either of its factors a or N could increase. The same is true for a decrease in the respective quantities.

Suppose comrade Luisa applies 2T of thinking to a series of N events. How can one explain this?

Possibility A: The proportionality law applies. The actual content of the events is T, but Luisa thought twice as hard as necessary per event.

Possibility B: The proportionality law does not apply, because the number of events is not statistically large. Therefore she happened to observe an uncharacteristic set of events with large thought content

T_observed = Σ a_n * t >> T_average

Your post seems more like Possibility A because that is when the number of events is thought to be overestimated from the applied thought.