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Thread #164605   Message #3969614
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Jan-19 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
"It does mention "most economists", which could be as little as 51%"

May I nitpick the nitpicker? If 51% of economists say a thing, and you then claimed that "most economists" had said it, you would be seriously misrepresenting the position in a tendentious manner. Honest debate dictates that you'd say instead "just over half of economists..." or "a small majority of economists..." or, most honest of all, "51% of economists." "Most economists" would be highly misleading. You have a hundred apples. You tell me that most of your apples are bruised. I examine your apples and find 51 bruised and 49 unbruised. The first thing I'd say to you would be to tell you to stop being such a bloody pessimist. Dunno about anybody else, but I'd have expected at least 70 to 80% to be bruised had you told me that "most" were bruised.