{"id":5042,"date":"2010-09-07T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T11:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/07\/language-poll-the-most-thresho\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T11:14:53","slug":"language-poll-the-most-thresho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/07\/language-poll-the-most-thresho\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Poll: The Most Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not prompted by anything specific, but something I&#8217;ve occasionally wondered about: what&#8217;s the threshold for &#8220;most&#8221;? Thus, <a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3729689\/\">a poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3729689.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3729689\/\">The minimum percentage of X doing Y that you would need to feel justified saying &#8220;Most X do Y&#8221; is:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">survey software<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I know I tend to use &#8220;most&#8221; to mean something considerably more than just 51%, but I&#8217;m not sure how widely that&#8217;s shared. When you say that &#8220;most&#8221; of some category of things have some property, do you mean a simple majority, or some kind of supermajority?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not prompted by anything specific, but something I&#8217;ve occasionally wondered about: what&#8217;s the threshold for &#8220;most&#8221;? Thus, a poll: The minimum percentage of X doing Y that you would need to feel justified saying &#8220;Most X do Y&#8221; is:survey software I know I tend to use &#8220;most&#8221; to mean something considerably more than just 51%,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/07\/language-poll-the-most-thresho\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language Poll: The Most Threshold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-polls","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}