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[–] 76 points 3 years ago (3 children)

… that’s not how percentages work

lemmygrad seems to be trans-friendly, and hexbear certainly is, but you can’t just add percentages together to get the total percentage

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  • [–] 78 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Um if it's not how they work, then how come I just did it?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Two imaginary groups, one with 100 people and one with 1000. The group with 100 has 50 trans people (50%). The group with 1000 people has 500 trans people (also 50%). By your method, they would be 100% trans in total. In reality, the total would be that 550 out of 1100 are trans, again 50%.

    Second round: one group is 50/100 (50%) trans and the other is 50/1000 (5%) trans. Does that mean they are 55% trans cumulatively? No, they are 9.091% trans.

    idk the numbers for our instances but I imagine that it's around 25%.

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