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by bhandziuk 948 days ago
Sometimes I feel the opposite. A condition might be described as affecting "only 1% of people" as if to say it's rare and I'm thinking that's so extremely common. I could walk into a highschool and there would be multiple people affected. Or maybe someone in my office has this right now.

Even 1 in 100,000 type conditions mean that multiple people in my city have it nevermind the region.