It's also worth noting we're in a global food crisis which started in 2020 and got worse in 2021. It continues to grow year over year. Ukraine and Russia were also the two biggest cereal providers, which apparently has affected these numbers significantly. That's just food safety though, for nutrition the numbers are worse.
https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-h...
Regardless how does 3.6:7.8 ie 46% constitute a majority? Most is a word. Words have meaning.
Respectfully, what you said would be less wrong if you had used the word many.
Also keep in mind that these numbers are based on estimations and definitions that give some room for interpretations, so they cannot be 100% accurate either.
Almost everything can be deemed as not worth doing because we need to fix sanitation first.
The author of the post is probably implicitly trying to say ‘everyone [who can] should’.
The person who posted about sanitation and taking “everyone” to mean literally everyone in the world, is being overly pedantic in my opinion.
Graciously, they are off by a few percent. Parsing words does not diminish the magnitude. The issue still stands. A large enough portion of the worlds problems dwarf the initiative to give everyone a webpage/domain. It's silly enough to discount.
From half. “Most” is likely close to 65-70%. And 46% is “less than half”.
If more than or equal to 46% qualifies as most, then both the statements would be correct:
(1) Most people don’t have access to sanitation.
(2) Most people do have access to sanitation.
That wouldn’t make logical sense.
Do I have an incorrect understanding of the word "most"?