Anthropic Principle vs Goddidit

[Neo-Scholastic]

Multiverse theories seem like a blank check that throws our specific universe into an anything goes mix of bizzare possibilities. In a Multiverse you can justify any assumption.

You obviously didn't look at the Scientific American article. I'm not obliged to explain this to you, but I will.

You can still determine the averages among the universes, with some features being more frequent than others. It's sort of like the Bell curve.
If the anthropic principle is true, the features of our universe should tend toward the averages, and outliers should only be as frequent as we would expect by chance. We can work out the calculation as a Bonferroni correction, a mathematical technique for defining the null hypothesis when there are "multiple comparisons" being made.
This is how they calculated the expected magnitue of dark energy. When astrophysicists checked it out, they found that the magnitude of dark energy fell within the average.

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How do you know this to be true? How do you know in the subset of universes sans intellect....my laptop would eventually show up?

The formation of laptops is permitted under the law of physics, otherwise no intelligent or unintelligent being would ever make them.

The outliers you dismiss are exactly the problem. Without some prior constraints infinite permutations of infinite potential can produce anything at all. There can be no such thing as an average universe among an infinite number of such. No ratio between finite numbers and infinity can be made. What is the average of 0 and infinity?