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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Got 20/20, was rewarded with a message, “You're more resilient to misinformation than 100% of the US population!” and looked for the Fake button because as a member of the US population, that is a mathematical impossibility.
Rounding error :)
100% has a margin of error in millions, or tens of, depending on interpretation.
For most purposes, a 5% margin of error is considered acceptable. Since some quick websearch estimates 336M people, if up to ~17M people are informed, you can still claim that 100% is misinformed.
(But then, if you actually know how many people are informed, your acceptable margin of error falls down considerably.)