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estimates which match polling are controversial

1000/20000 = 5% and then 3 < 5 < 6. obvious division is bad math?

like why be so wrong and mad about it. you could just try not to be performatively confused

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Please continue to convince me that 20000 * 3% ≠ 600

I'm enthralled

> Makes controversial claim, provides no source.

Still includes no sources, tries to distract with some sort of quasi-math

more confusion

Feel free to add to the conversation whenever you're ready.

confused

Try https://goblin.tools instead of one word responses, you might like the "meaning explainer"

You’re really reaching to make their argument not make sense. They used a middle number from a range and then you took the low end of that and acted like they said something incorrect.

I notice you also don't provide a source for the info, so your comment is just more noise.

Is "believe me, I typed it into a comment" all it takes for you to accept a statistic?

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