• @[email protected]
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    014 days ago

    Backwards as in “less than half” vs “more than half”.

    Yeah that’s just the telephone chain effect (or whatever they call it).

    1: Source says 45%
    2: Guy reads source and says “nearly half”
    3: Chap listens to Guy and says “half”
    4: Dude listens to Chap and says “more than half”
    5: Uni-Grad hears Dude and says “a significant amount of”
    6: Media hears Uni-Grad and says “almost all”

      • @[email protected]
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        013 days ago

        Ahh right. I didn’t notice that part.

        Guess I should have read the image as carefully as your text.

    • Red Army Dog Cooper
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      014 days ago

      between 2 and 3 there is a step that goes from “nearly half” to “roughly half” and that is what makes that jump easier you would also likely see that between 3 and 4.

      however 2-4 are not needed because 45% is by most metrics a “significant amount”