> someone in the 5th percentile of wealth I find the percentile measure terrible to technically mean 95% of the population, but is often colloquially understoo

> someone in the 5th percentile of wealth I find the percentile measure terrible to technically mean 95% of the population, but is often colloquially understood the other way around. It's like German numbers, when people say five and forty to mean 45. The general population rejects needless complexity.