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Assume v. Presume

But surely, the 'unstated baseline' was stated, it was 'more', implying that the comparison is with the amount of plaque you were getting off in the first place?
 
100% is also an upper limit. If manual brushing is inefficient at plaque removal, this electric toothbrush is only (at best) twice as efficient. If the manual got rid of 10% and the electric got rid of 50%, wouldn't they have claimed "up to 500%"?. I would be pretty disappointed if an expensive electric toothbrush only achieved 50%!

On the other hand, if the electric can achieve say 90%, and that's up to 100% better than manual, then manual must achieve 45-90% - pretty damn good. And where is the difference 48,000 cycles per minute make compared to 600?
 
Black Hole said:
100% is also an upper limit.
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I agree with that 110%.

Saying that something removes 99% of plaque would be more honest than saying that it is x% better than some other control.

Anyway, know what really annoys me? Abbreviations that depend for their meaning on the case of the letters used. That is slatternly!
 
£11,000 a year fees, but...
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I worked for a long time with a colleague who had a complete blind spot when it came to spelling (and saying) catagagory. :)
 
Trev said:
Excellent in every category except spelling I presume (or should it be assume?). I hope that they are ashamed of it and have got it re-ritern.
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Only when someone pointed it out. Don't think the teachers had noticed! :D

It now reads "Year's" of course. :p
 
People who call gears cogs... particularly when they are engineers!


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af123 said:
People who call gears cogs... particularly when they are engineers!


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Short for cogwheel?

Here is an illustration of "cogs in the machine" that helps to emphasize the difference:

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I hear the younger generation in shops asking "can I get" something rather than "can I have". Bloody US TV!

Dunno what's wrong with using cog as a synonym for gear (I know there are no true synonyms, but close enough surely?).
 
Black Hole said:
I hear the younger generation in shops asking "can I get" something rather than "can I have". Bloody US TV!
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In my youth I worked in a shop for a while and used to answer that with "No, I will have to get it for you."

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Dunno what's wrong with using cog as a synonym for gear (I know there are no true synonyms, but close enough surely?).
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Really? A cog is a tooth on a gear. Cogwheel is a synonym for a gear but I don't accept that people use cog as an abbreviation for that.


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