[foo-bar-bat]

It's probably more like 7.9 now.

Regardless how does 3.6:7.8 ie 46% constitute a majority? Most is a word. Words have meaning.

Respectfully, what you said would be less wrong if you had used the word many.

[carschno]

In the end, however, it hardly matters whether it is 46% or 51% percent. The exact wording by the GP may have been inaccurate, but the numbers support the underlying point: sanitation very far from universally accessible.

Also keep in mind that these numbers are based on estimations and definitions that give some room for interpretations, so they cannot be 100% accurate either.

[j245]

Bringing up lack of access to sanitation hardly matters in this context.

Almost everything can be deemed as not worth doing because we need to fix sanitation first.

The author of the post is probably implicitly trying to say ‘everyone [who can] should’.

The person who posted about sanitation and taking “everyone” to mean literally everyone in the world, is being overly pedantic in my opinion.

[Supermancho]

> Regardless how does 3.6:7.8 ie 46% constitute a majority? Most is a word. Words have meaning.

Graciously, they are off by a few percent. Parsing words does not diminish the magnitude. The issue still stands. A large enough portion of the worlds problems dwarf the initiative to give everyone a webpage/domain. It's silly enough to discount.

[allarm]

> Graciously, they are off by a few percent.

From half. “Most” is likely close to 65-70%. And 46% is “less than half”.

[Supermancho]

Trying to make some separate point about parsed words (you really left the subject behind for some reason), in this case, is not a compelling argument against the assertion. I phrased it in a more amicable form (the way it was obviously intended to be communicated) and another random person, takes up with minutia. Good luck with that.

[allarm]

You don’t need to parse or interpret words. Words, as the other commenter said, have meanings. Use these meanings instead of making up nonsense.

[susanthenerd]

Aren't we already 8B people?