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Please fix the title, the real number is 18% (of 2000 people surveyed)

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very interesting numbers nonetheless.

is that not almost one fifth?

I thought parent comment was quibbling as well but it’s actually closer to one-sixth and surprisingly this does affect my reaction to the information. So I do think 18% would be a better title. The article does get there in the second line at least (but not before saying “almost 20%” for no reason other than to exaggerate, I guess.)

Assuming the survey methodology allows us to scale this number to the whole population, it would be nearly 12 million people (0.18 * 66 million = 11.88 million). Quite a staggering number no matter what percentage it is.

You included all the two year olds in your 66 million.

Very true. Do you know a figure for UK pop above the age of 8? I can't find that with some quick searching.

I don't know what 1/6 is as a percentage off the top of my head though, whereas I know that 1/5 = 20%. So either the journalist didn't know either, or thought that enough of the population didn't know and that 1/5 was more informative.

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