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You hang out with a very particular crowd if 90% of your friends go to the gym, especially if 70% also take steroids.

Ummm, I don't want to say that reading is fundamental (even though it is), but, of the 36% of his acquaintances that go to the gym for that reason, about just over 25% (of his 'crowd' in aggregate, not of the 36%) take steroids. That's certainly a lot more than my friends ('crowd') do (as far as a know), but it's not as out of whack as you suggest.

The parent comment was edited and a bunch of numbers changed, but actually not enough to invalidate my comment; the numbers would still only apply to very particular subgroups.

Edit: Also no need to be a jerk about “reading comprehension” even if the comment hadn’t been edited to mismatch my reply. That’s the first rule in the HN guidelines.

Comment was edited but the numbers weren't changed.

I simply edited my comment to clarify how many of my friend actually go to gym.

And I added, "out of them" to clarify that further distribution is sub distribution of the distribution above it.

If 1 out of 4 of your fiends are on steroids just for the gym, that’s pretty crazy to me

Me too.

Most of my friends don't go to the gym - they drink. Maybe I hang out with the wrong crowd.

I think op said 40% of their friends go to the gym.

Looks like that was added later.

Steroids are way more common than you think. At they very least half of the men in any gym have taken steroids at some point.

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