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Drug companies do it all the time. They market something as providing a "50% reduction" in some metric and in the fine print you find it's a change from 0.5% to 0.25% in occurrence.


50% reduction in death rate sounds impressive until you find out it’s 3 out of 8 billion people, true.




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