• 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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        2 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”