• eltimablo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    How can America have 25% of the world’s prison population of the entire country doesn’t make up even 10% of the world’s population?

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I have a bag and in it are 100 coloured tokens. 90 are black and 10 are red. What percentage of tokens are red? 10 out of 100, which is 10%.

      Now I pull two tokens at random. In my hand is 1 red token and 1 black token. I can say red tokens make up 50% of the tokens in my hand. But wait? How can the red tokens make up 50% of the tokens in my hand if they only make up 10% of all the tokens in the bag?

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Well see, that’s kinda the point of the post.

      We’re “the land of the free” but also the land of the most non-free people.