The 50% american divorce rate is mostly in line with published statistics. I don’t think it is unrealistic to assume that an overwhelming majority of folks getting married, feel that they are getting married to “the one”, so I am just keeping the 50% figure. In any case getting this number to be very accurate is not important to the argument, so I didn’t care to get the best possible estimate of this possible.
Yeah that’s what I meant but wrote the sentence clumsily. Have corrected it now.
But can you keep the 50% figure while changing what it denotes? Where does the figure come from?
The 50% american divorce rate is mostly in line with published statistics. I don’t think it is unrealistic to assume that an overwhelming majority of folks getting married, feel that they are getting married to “the one”, so I am just keeping the 50% figure. In any case getting this number to be very accurate is not important to the argument, so I didn’t care to get the best possible estimate of this possible.
Then say “a fair portion of”, not “50%”. Saying “50%” gives an illusion of actual data.
I’m not so sure.
I wrote “probably 50%”. I guess it could be reasonably inferred that this is an extrapolation using my best guess coupled with actual numbers.
Write “half”, or (if you’re feeling pedantic), “~half”.