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[-] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

How would being more accurate distract from the point? I agree with what the post is saying, but making up statistics doesn't really help IMO and takes away from the credibility

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Hyperbole and hypotheticals aren't "making up statistics"

[-] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn't seem like this post was meant to be hyperbolic though? Hyperbole doesn't work well in the context of numbers. If someone said 1 in 100 people drive a Toyota, how would I differentiate that from being an actual figure or hyperbole? It's not obvious unless you look into it. Likewise, if someone told me that 1 in 400 people in the US get shot every day I'd struggle to tell if that's true or not, given how much I hear about gun crime over there.

This post is quite clearly framed in a way that sounds like fact.

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