For the vast majority of the population that isn't actually concerned with that and is happy to conflate the two, doing so will produce a useful enough result g

For the vast majority of the population that isn't actually concerned with that and is happy to conflate the two, doing so will produce a useful enough result given the two are synonymous enough of the time that the person isn't at risk of drawing a conclusion that maybe doesn't hold true because they forgot to consider the edge cases.