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SoftTalker
5 months ago
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Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking d...
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.
hinkley
5 months ago
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50% reduction in death rate sounds impressive until you find out it’s 3 out of 8 billion people, true.
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