But for the social anthropologist that point is hardly relevant.
The person who generated that response seems to know no physics and the explanation is hardly relevant.
"They're important from a statistical point of view," he said, "but as individuals, they are hardly relevant to the course of history."
Hardly relevant to the victim's character or the case.
The fact that most of her life had been spent without vision as she knew it now was hardly relevant.
That is hardly relevant, but the survey took place last week.
In this case however, the questions asked are trivia, hardly relevant to working memory.
"Xenoc customs are hardly relevant at a time like this," he said.
It was hardly relevant to him, and yet he found himself waiting for the answer, willing that she had not.
Whether I am 0.1 or 0.2% either way is hardly that relevant.