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Originally Posted by Eaton Beaver
Estimates by the Pew Research Center are that 17 percent of people who identify as "Republican" are receiving or have received "food stamps" (now called SNAP, btw)
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Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do
So... doing the math thing:
Would that not therefore mean that 83% percent are not "Republican"?
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Is this a reading comprehension problem?
Or a failure to understand basic math?
It means that Pew Research estimated that 17 percent of Republicans are getting SNAP benefits or have gotten them in the past.
That's it. It has nothing to do with the distribution of the people currently receiving them.
Tiny is probably more accurate with his numbers, but it does not affect the point I was trying to make, misrepresented by you, which is that there are millions of Republicans who will feel the pain of this too. It hurts many across all popular political ideologies.
You may want to ensure you understand basic calculations like that prior to using more advanced statistical concepts, which you have misapplied. The "80/20 rule" has no relevancy here whatsoever. Unless it is in reference to the concept that 80 percent of MAGA-supporting posts contain 20 percent factual information.