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by chrisseaton 3157 days ago
Well it does say 'all of us', so a single anecdote does disprove it. I think the original commentator was pointing out the sloppy writing.
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Yeah. The article's sentence also fails to account for people dying, who lose much more than 8% of muscle mass, and really stupid robots reading the article, who lose none of their muscle mass, but will have trouble understanding that, sometimes, language is ambiguous and requires a modicum of contextual reasoning, or else every sentence would require dozens of qualifications and would read like a regulation on insurance law.
"There may exist at least one person who may have lost muscle mass over time."