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foo-bar-bat | 2 years ago

It's probably more like 7.9 now.

Regardless how does 3.6:7.8 ie 46% constitute a majority? Most is a word. Words have meaning.

Respectfully, what you said would be less wrong if you had used the word many.

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carschno|2 years ago

In the end, however, it hardly matters whether it is 46% or 51% percent. The exact wording by the GP may have been inaccurate, but the numbers support the underlying point: sanitation very far from universally accessible.

Also keep in mind that these numbers are based on estimations and definitions that give some room for interpretations, so they cannot be 100% accurate either.

j245|2 years ago

Bringing up lack of access to sanitation hardly matters in this context.

Almost everything can be deemed as not worth doing because we need to fix sanitation first.

The author of the post is probably implicitly trying to say ‘everyone [who can] should’.

The person who posted about sanitation and taking “everyone” to mean literally everyone in the world, is being overly pedantic in my opinion.

Supermancho|2 years ago

> Regardless how does 3.6:7.8 ie 46% constitute a majority? Most is a word. Words have meaning.

Graciously, they are off by a few percent. Parsing words does not diminish the magnitude. The issue still stands. A large enough portion of the worlds problems dwarf the initiative to give everyone a webpage/domain. It's silly enough to discount.

allarm|2 years ago

> Graciously, they are off by a few percent.

From half. “Most” is likely close to 65-70%. And 46% is “less than half”.