I'm like 98% sure they do.

Yeah. In college my friends used to make fun of my confirming attendance to things in percentages.

"You coming to the party later tonight?"

"Yeah, I'm like 70% sure I'll be there"

I make up random percentages for things 76.5% of the time

80% here. It’s actually a great way to communicate approximate confidence

"I'm 99% sure of this."

"It's 50/50."

"I agree with about 25% of what you said."

"There's not a 1% chance you're right."

My favorite that trips people up is "nine times out of a hundred"

Did you know that only 23% of social media users know how to sharpen a pencil?

And that's an absolute fact. I absolutely 110% pulled that fact out of my ass.

One call that I never will forget came at close to four A.M., waking me; he must have just gotten up in Los Angeles. His voice said, "Alex Haley?" I said, sleepily, "Yes? Oh, hey, Malcolm!" His voice said, "I trust you seventy percent" -- and then he hung up.

Afterword to The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Normalize this. Measure everything thing that is measurable, and make everything measurable that is not measurable. We need quantifiable communication. End linguistic quinary!

I do about 80% of the time, and I try to be genuine in my approximations, and I will adjust them as more information comes in.

And if I promise you over 100%, it's something that I'm really excited about and that if you bail there's x% chance I'm going to not let you out of it, or find someone to fill in your roll.

No, but I might start.

When I'm uncertain about something, I'll often go with "I'm 76.5% sure that..." (Or some other number which reflects my confidence).

On a mental estimate… 15% of the time.

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The only time I ever answer in a percentage is when im almost certain it'll happen, like 60% sure

I'd love a 50% and 1000% emoji.

Because no-one says 50/50 chance?

60% of the time, it works every time!

23%!

Yes? Isn't it the normal thing to do when someone's uncertain?

There are a lot of questions and statements with nuanced answers and replies, such as this exact exchange we're currently experiencing. 100% therefor indicates that you would have captured the concept perfectly as it relates to both of our relative experiences, without anything to correct or add.

If it’s not 100% then it’s just a maybe.

Ten billion percent correct

I like to give my percentages in like 93% prime numbers. It confuses people about 87% of the time.

Ill go about half sometimes