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What happens when those three pedal the other direction?
It's stats, it's a descriptive term. It just literally doesn't mean what you're saying it means.
A driver in stats is just an item or a group that has a significant impact on the final result. What that means is going to vary from study to study.
Anyway, you can hold on to your belief about what a driver is, you are factually incorrect, and you were also kind of an asshole to the other guy. I'm out.
I've already agreed that situations vary. My point has always been about this study, not others. In this situation, the 15-20% of births in teens was not "the traditional driver of USA birth rates" (paraphrasing).
As for the other person, they were being an asshole for repeatedly attempting to use their own misunderstanding to delegitimize my point instead of taking even a moment to consider my words wholly. Pardon me for not having a surplus of patience to endure that today.
Your "words wholly" includes more than whatever you think it does.
Has it? I think you're far less clear and careful with your words than you think you are. You've been arguing from the start that less than half of something isn't and can't be significant. We aren't even discussing the text in this study that you can read in the screenshot:
What you're saying now about “the traditional driver of USA birth rates” isn't reflected in your other comments.