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by rattray 1733 days ago
What are some of the ways percentiles can be abused?
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# Power Statement

!*Plowser*!* is in the 99th percentile of browsers by global user count!

# Fact Sheet

- !*Plowser*! is used by 2,050 people

- sample size of browsers is 10,000 (this includes toy apps on GitHub and almost all browsers in the sample have no record of active users)

- those using !*Plowser*! have no choice as the developing company $*DendralRot Inc*$ forces all its employees, contractors and users of their enterprise '?_shuiteware_?' (a name derived by mashing |-->shite|software|suite<--| into one word) to use their browser

- if we place the number of global browser users at a conservative 1,000,000,000, !*Plowser*! actually has 0.00000205% of users