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"Rare" versus "common" is an interesting one. They sound like antonyms, but I don't think the typical probabilities are really symmetrical. Maybe something like
by hunter2_ 1y ago
"Rare" versus "common" is an interesting one. They sound like antonyms, but I don't think the typical probabilities are really symmetrical. Maybe something like 0%-10% for rare (although some sources say 5%) and something like 40%-100% for common.
- Macha 1y agoMaybe it's my amount of video games played in childhood that influenced that, but common and rare are just two points on a spectrum (with at least "uncommon" in between)
- konstantinua00 1y ago"common" has such a large spread because meaning behind it is sort of "at least one in each sample", where that sample can be anything (graspable) if you're a teacher and one student per class does the same thing - it's common. Even though it's only 1/25 or 1/30 of all students
- BobaFloutist 1y agoI think I mentally interpret "common" as "a member of a plurality category," which is to say in the same order of magnitude of commonality as the most common group at a given level of detail. What you're describing, I think I would call "Not uncommon." Or, to put it another way, you shouldn't be surprised for any given case to exhibit it, but you shouldn't expect it either.