• butter@midwest.social
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      3 days ago

      I think the second guy had it backwards.

      Wikipedia (If you don’t like it, use it’s sources):

      Nearly half of foster children in the US become homeless when they reach the age of 18

      • ulterno@programming.dev
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        2 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”

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            1 day 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@lemmy.ml
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          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”