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You got me in a technically correct way, which is as they say, the best kind of correct. I think the keyword "majority" being defined as more than %50 being the
by arminiusreturns 7y ago
You got me in a technically correct way, which is as they say, the best kind of correct. I think the keyword "majority" being defined as more than %50 being the crux, so I should have worded my statement better with a "most", "plurality" or "relative majority" instead.
> most Americans specifically identify as either Democrats or Republicans
Now you just did the same thing I did but in reverse! See my comments about more specific words for plurality such as "most".
> independents are given outsize importance by the major media
I don't think independents are given much importance at all by the major media, but I have increasingly disconnected from that circus too so I might not be a good judge of it.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Now you just did the same thing I did but in reverse! No, I didn't. > See my comments about more specific words for plurality such as "most". “Most” (as an adjective applied to a group) is for a majority, not a plurality, but that's okay, because 57% is an absolute majority, anyway, which is why my reference, which did use “most” for a majority, was not what you did.
- arminiusreturns 7y agoI disagree with your definition of most. https://electowiki.org/wiki/Majority https://electowiki.org/wiki/Majority Maybe not the best source, but quite a few sites returned similar verbiage about most usually but not always referring to a plurality. I'm open to correction on this point, and am genuinely curious about this meta argument now. Having a hard time finding a statistical dictionary that references the words we are using here (majority, most, etc).
- sertaco 7y agoCan I even reply beyond this point?
- arminiusreturns 7y agoAre you asking rhetorically in a facetious way or a real question? If the former am I missing something (like maybe I said something dumb, it's happened before)?