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| Topic | Scientists OVERWHELMINGLY reject Trump in Nature poll |
| adjl 10/26/20 8:56:54 AM #8: | LuciferSage posted... 9/10 dentists agree/recommend... I'm guessing that's just advertising-speak for "we couldn't get complete consensus on the matter and we can't legally round up to 10 because that would imply we had," similar to Lysol claiming to kill "99.99% of germs." They could indicate greater consensus by being more precise, but that would lose the snappiness of "9 out of 10," and advertisers like snappiness. I'm guessing it's also legal to round up from 85%, and really, getting somewhere between 85 and 100% of professionals surveyed to say that your product works isn't all that hard (presuming it actually does work). Clench281 posted... I dunno, you're bound to get some split between parties. Knowing that, a difference of ten-to-one is enormous. It really does speak to how absurdly people will cling to party loyalty that it's still that high, but yeah. It's pretty clear where science stands on the matter. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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