Anti vaxxers numerically illiterate, page-5

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    If you look at the TGA report debates or stats on vaxxed/unvaxxed deaths, it is clear that anti-vaxxer activists target people with poor numerical literacy by consciously exploiting it in arguments that make no sense.

    Take a simple problem. I have 1000 lemon trees and 100 apple trees. Twelve of my lemon trees have a fungus. But only eight of my apple trees have a fungus. What tree is more prone to fungus - lemon trees or apple trees?

    Anti-vaxxers target the ones who pick lemon trees, because 12 is more than 8. And there's a shocking amount of those innumerate people making major financial decisions on an investment forum like this.
 
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