Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by elliotec on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:12PM
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No, why would I be annoyed about the history of the founding of the west? I am very very familiar with it.
I'm only annoyed that people have been stating that same old statistic which hasn't been true for at least a decade.
41% is never a majority. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by ythn on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:14PM
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> I'm only annoyed that people have been stating that same old statistic which hasn't been true for at least a decade.
Do you have a source? Wikipedia seems to still support the "same old statistic" in a lot of ways and indicates by all accounts an LDS majority in Utah.
Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by ythn on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:42PM
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> 41% is never a majority
In my country, 41% of people are red party, 38% are blue party, and 21% are green party. Which party has the majority share of voters?
Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by dnadler on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:00PM
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I think you're confusing 'majority' and 'plurality'.
Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by ythn on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:20PM
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My mistake, you are correct - plurality is the correct word here.
In my example the party with plurality can capture the majority of the vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean the party itself is a majority.
Are you annoyed that the entire state was founded by LDS pioneers? Without the mormons, Utah would be west colorado wasteland or another desolate, sparsely populated state like Wyoming.
And 41% can be a majority depending on how you break down the remaining 59%