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I’m gonna need a source on that second claim cause it doesn’t sound right
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I think the second guy had it backwards.
Wikipedia (If you don't like it, use it's sources):
Nearly half of foster children in the US become homeless when they reach the age of 18
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That's still really bad though
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That's honestly worse.
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Backwards as in "less than half" vs "more than half".
Yeah that's just the telephone chain effect (or whatever they call it).
1: Source says 45%
2: Guy reads source and says "nearly half"
3: Chap listens to Guy and says "half"
4: Dude listens to Chap and says "more than half"
5: Uni-Grad hears Dude and says "a significant amount of"
6: Media hears Uni-Grad and says "almost all"-
Backwards as in half of foster kids, not half of homeless people.
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Ahh right. I didn't notice that part.
Guess I should have read the image as carefully as your text.
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between 2 and 3 there is a step that goes from "nearly half" to "roughly half" and that is what makes that jump easier you would also likely see that between 3 and 4.
however 2-4 are not needed because 45% is by most metrics a "significant amount"
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