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  • OmegaMouse@feddit.ukto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule of 400
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    8 months 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.