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In my mind when I say something like "most people answer X" I expect some kind of a landlisde of X answers. If asked randomly in the streets almost everyone (or maybe 3 out of 4 people) I ask the question would answer "X". But I've seen it used to describe a bare minimum majority. Someone wrote "Most Swiss voters would accept X " with "most" refering to 53% of the voters. It contradicts what I thought "most" would mean. Can "most" be used in a broad sense from just more than 50 to a 100% or is there some sort of higher threshold that should be reached ?
u/01bah01 — 15 days ago