Colonial Times (slow-paced future nation rp)

[Menen]

Ever hear of multilingual people?

Then you have a third value for them.

90% speak english, 5% speak Spanish, 5% speak both.

There.

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[blazerblock2]

It's easier to just say, 95% of people speak English, and 20% of people speak other languages.  It implies that 15% of people are multilingual.

[Menen]

It's easier to just say, 95% of people speak English, and 20% of people speak other languages.  It implies that 15% of people are multilingual.

You can't imply a statistic.

"20% of the population are naked dancers, and 100% sell their kidneys on the black market. That implies that 9% of the population enjoy butterfly gardens"

[blazerblock2]

That makes no sense.  It implies that that 20% of naked dancers sell their kidneys on the black market.

[Menen]

That makes no sense.  It implies that that 20% of naked dancers sell their kidneys on the black market.

Are you sure? I felt a different implication.

[blazerblock2]

You had no data down to support that 9% of the population, in fact, do enjoy butterfly gardens, nor does having naked dancers that donate their kidneys to illegal markets have anything to do with butterfly gardens.

[Menen]

You had no data down to support that 9% of the population, in fact, do enjoy butterfly gardens, nor does having naked dancers that donate their kidneys to illegal markets have anything to do with butterfly gardens.

there is also no data to support that extra 15% is bilingual. of course, data means nothing when the facts are implied

[blazerblock2]

How is there no data to support that?  It's quite evident. 

95+20=115
115-15=100
Which means that, 5% don't speak English, 95% do, and 15% speak English and a different language.  It's pretty simple if you ask me.

[Menen]

How is there no data to support that?  It's quite evident. 

95+20=115
115-15=100
Which means that, 5% don't speak English, 95% do, and 15% speak English and a different language.  It's pretty simple if you ask me.

Except when you have the statistic "20% of the population speaks spanish" that means exactly that. They arent Bilingual, and they aren't english speakers. They speak Spanish and only spanish. You cant just throw another number in there and say "Oh and this completely non concrete number speaks both"

If your population is 100, and 95% speaks english and you bunch them up into a group, you have 95 People.

Now those remaining 5 people are the last 5% of the population. That means there aren't enough people who speak spanish left to add up to 20% of the population. You would need another 15 people speaking spanish in order to get 20%. But your population is only 100. You cant just make people out of thin air in order to fit your numbers.

Also your math doesn't actually proove anything. Congragulations, you know that 115-15=100. Now how does that prove that the extra 15% speak both languages?

[blazerblock2]

No, but we're not talking about taking physical objects and dividing them into groups, we're talking about statistics.  You can overlap statistics, it's been done before.

Also your math doesn't actually proove anything. Congragulations, you know that 115-15=100. Now how does that prove that the extra 15% speak both languages?

God damn edits.
No, it's just subtracting the excess from 100.

[Menen]

No, but we're not talking about taking physical objects and dividing them into groups, we're talking about statistics. You can overlap statistics, it's been done before.

God damn edits.
No, it's just subtracting the excess from 100.

Are you sure that statistics have been overlaped? Prove it.

Also your math doesn't prove that that 15 percent speaks spanish, And Yes we are talking about physical objects because these numbers are about people and last time i checked people were physical things that you can touch and count and divide into groups. You cannot subtract part equation from one side without doing the same from another. A statistic is an equation.

95 + 20 = 115 (From here, I subtract 15 from each side because that is how you actually do it in math)
95+5=100. 100 is the new total, but that means that the spanish speaking population is now only at 5. However, I can also subtract that 15 from the english speakers, but then it wouldn't be the specified 95 anymore.

When you are talking about a specific number, you refer to it as 100%, or the whole. When you divide it in half, both halves equal 50%. If a percentage is over 100%, you are saying that the number is increasing or exceeding the normal. (For example, the engine is running at 120% would mean that is is running 20% better than it's maximum efficiency)

We are spamming this thread, so im done with this argument.

[Crispy_]

simply the amount over 100 is the amount that speak multiple languages
i did this because i did not want to make a long list, as i might add more languages


i did not do this for religion because it would be odd to have multiple religions

[Mounds Bar]

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*Country name: Regnare
*Parent Country: France
*Government Type: Democracy

*Economy Type: (Please inform what this is)
*Currency: Bronze Coins
*Currency to USD worth: .94 per US dollar.

*Population: 178
*Languages: French, British English
*Dominating Religion(s): Catholicism
Literacy Rate: 98.5%
Life Expectancy: 92

*Capital: Loin Portée
Major Cities: Loin Portée
*Map:



Alliances:
Trade Partners: None established.
Organization(s): ?

DEFCON Level: 1

Military Specs: Foot soldiers and scouts, five jeeps, two tanks, heavy ordnance including missile launchers and machine guns.

[Crispy_]

'dem errors

*Economy Type: (Please inform what this is)

market, government controlled, or mixed
see wikipedia

*Population: 178

dont you feel thats too little?

DEFCON Level: 1

nuclear threat

also what color do you want to be on the map? red?

[Mounds Bar]

'dem errors
market, government controlled, or mixed Like, the government controls exports and imports into the country? Limited government control, actually.
see wikipedia

dont you feel thats too little? There will be expansion over time, we don't have enough resources that we brought with us for a huge population.

nuclear threat Defcon Five

also what color do you want to be on the map? red? Purple, please :D