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Around non-specifically 50% compared to as high as 29.999% doesn't seem like a huge delta. I wonder what the real number on both is.
Edit: Looks like it was 52.4 and 29.1 respectively. The numbers on how much they trust the responses later in the article might be more worrying.
That's because you don't understand the numbers. 30% to 50% means it's actually 66% more common for girls.
Is this a joke?
Dude probably reversed some numbers, math is hard sometimes. Or... they're focusing only on comparing between the affected population which is kinda weird.
Well the math they did was 0.5/0.3 = 1.(6)
To make the logic for that math easier to follow, imagine it was actually 60% of teenage girls rather than the 50% from the article.
If you pick a random man, there is a 30% chance they consult AI. If you pick a random girl, that chance is instead 60%. So twice as likely, or expressed a different way, 100% more likely than when picking a random man.
Switching back to the 30/50 numbers you get that a random teenage girl is (at least) 66% more likely to turn to AI than a random man.
To me, this seems like a reasonable way to compare these numbers and it makes it clear that the difference is actually pretty significant, contrary to OP comment's claim.
Absolutely 100% correct, and if I recall correctly, it's about 5th grade math. It's astounding the number of people here who don't understand such a simple concept.
No, their math is right — it says so in the article itself.