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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by finid on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:52PM (#13477003)
So he got 63 million votes, and Hillary got, say, 66 million. That a total of roughly 130 million.

Know that that means? About 90 million did not vote.

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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by ojbyrne on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:00PM (#13477047)
Of course. But 50% of the population is not an accurate phrasing in any way.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by finid on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:11PM (#13477125)
It's accurate, but raw numbers does something to our understanding of matters like that.
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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by kajecounterhack on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:25PM (#13477591)
It's not accurate. 50% of voters is accurate.

50% of the population is not accurate.

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Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit by astrodust on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:07AM (#13479910)
It's not accurate.

Like Brexit, it was a fraction of all potential voters that voted, and of those less than half voted for that particular thing. At best it was 28% of the voting age population.

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