Why each energy state is having only 1 electron?

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Why each energy state is having only 1 Fermion or electron instead of 2?
as we know fermions or electrons obey pauli's exclusion principal so 1 state can have two electrons with different spin (i.e if one spins up then second spins down) isn't it?
 
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Each orbital can hold two electrons because they have two different spin states. The complete state of both electrons is not identical, so Pauli's exclusion principle doesn't prevent two electrons with different spin states from occupying the same orbital.
 
jfizzix said:
Each orbital can hold two electrons because they have two different spin states. The complete state of both electrons is not identical, so Pauli's exclusion principle doesn't prevent two electrons with different spin states from occupying the same orbital.
Ya...I know 2 electron can occupy 1 energy state. But in Fermi-Dirac statistics there is mentioned that "only one electron can occupy one energy state"...!