• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    53% is barely “most”

    This is a really bizarre point to try to make, to me. The headline doesn’t say “the vast, overwhelming percentage of gamers”… It says most. 53% is most.

    The bigger problem I had was with the categories, really.

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      28 days ago

      “Most” in more than a simple majority in my understanding of English as a non-native speaker. “More” would be a better word for it. I’d also take “single player is the most popular” of two game modes which is true but still implies more than 6% difference.

      Are you Spanish or Arabic speaking by any chance?

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      29 days ago

      That 3% could be a rounding error, “most” implies a much bigger difference, the title should say that half gamers prefer singleplayer games.

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        29 days ago

        It doesn’t though. It doesn’t even need to mean more than half, it means more than anything else. If there are 8 groups of 10 and 1 group of 20, the last group has the most members.