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The missing statistic is what % of users are active.

If 97% of users are inactive, and this affected 1.5% of users, then 50% of active users were affected.

Note that they didn't say 1.5% of users, they said 1.5% of messages were affected.

I'm totally aware of how they said what they said, I just don't necessarily believe it.

As a counterpoint, nobody I know experienced any problems with gmail yesterday. Including coworkers.