a fatality rate of 14.5 percent per 100,000 units.
Tell me you don’t understand statistics without telling me you don’t understand statistics.
It’s clear they meant “14.5 per 100,000 units” because later they call that “17 times” the Ford Pinto’s fatality rate of “0.85 per 100,000 units”. 14.5 divided by 0.85 is 17.06, so very close to “17 times.”
But that “percent” is just randomly thrown in there and is largely meaningless.
(Taking it as literally as it could possibly be taken, one could say it meant “0.145 per 100,000 units”. But again, from the context in the rest of the article, it’s clear that’s not what they meant as that’s not “17 times” 0.85.)
Tell me you don’t understand statistics without telling me you don’t understand statistics.
It’s clear they meant “14.5 per 100,000 units” because later they call that “17 times” the Ford Pinto’s fatality rate of “0.85 per 100,000 units”. 14.5 divided by 0.85 is 17.06, so very close to “17 times.”
But that “percent” is just randomly thrown in there and is largely meaningless.
(Taking it as literally as it could possibly be taken, one could say it meant “0.145 per 100,000 units”. But again, from the context in the rest of the article, it’s clear that’s not what they meant as that’s not “17 times” 0.85.)