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by tetester 4949 days ago
"Show me the gender distribution of my friends" - 178.72% Male
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178 is the number, and 72 is the percentage. Unfortunately the comma is easy to mistake for a period.
Sounds like an i18n nightmare waiting to happen; in some locales, the comma is the period and vice versa.
I'm the stupid one :(
False. There are many women in Waterloo, of which I am one. My chemical engineering class was about 32% female, but many of the programs at Waterloo have more women than male in them.
Who says they weren't just using a 200% scale, like alcohol proof? :)
While Waterloo often does seem to be about 178.72% male, parts of engineering are at parity (chem eng was 50/50 a few years back) and there are entire other faculties with lots of lovely people for you to make friends with.
Sounds about right for a Waterloo CS student.