7d ago

Sorry bout your heart

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% per 100k? This person is making a valid point, but it's undermined somewhat by the fact they've clearly fucked up something.
- According to this, per 10,000 people:
  Japan: 0.2
  US: 19.5
  https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/homelessness-by-country
  
  That's what I figured they meant.
  
  Yeah, but those other stats are raw numbers. Okay, we have a higher number of unhoused people and food-insecure people, but we also have a higher number of people, period. If you wanna make a point, it has to be per capita. I like how the first stat got this right, but the others did not.
  
  Ya might be a good point but it’s a distracting mess
  Thankfully we already know a little bit about both of our situations so we get the gist
  
  US population: ~350M Japan population: ~125M
  Not even 3x as much.
  
  You're not wrong. I'm just saying, if you want to make that point, you should compare per capita.
  
  .2% per year? So we should expect about 10% of people to be murdered by 50?
  I was going to say .2% is better than I thought, but that’s pretty dire.
  
  0.2 people, not percentage. That was what they were trying to straighten out because percent per 100k doesn't make sense.
- Eh, the population difference is less than one order of magnitude and the difference in homelessness is two orders of magnitude.
  
  It's not about that, it's about "% per 100k" making no sense as a unit. It's either just %, or an absolute number per 100k. Mixing both together like this makes it seem like you've clearly messed something up and don't quite understand what you're actually talking about.
  
  Literally 5.7 per 100 per 100,000.
  Neither had cake nor ate it
  
  As soon as you get to the "per 100" part you can stop. After that, it doesn't matter if it's per 100,000, per 8,759,016, or per 10.
  So the fact that they mixed up something so basic makes you question the number entirely. Their point is valid, but undermined by their lack of basic math skills.

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