Less Paul pioneered the SOLID BODY electric guitar. He did not steal anything. it was his idea. Don't be confused by the fact that electric pickups existed and were used on acoustic guitars. Les was the one who did it with a solid-body and made it what it ultimately became. He also pioneered (not "invented") the use of multitrack recording for overdubbing even though Ampex created the multitrack technology, but actually invented the "overdubbing" by adding a playback head before the recording head so he could play along with a previous recording, and both sounds would then be the new recording. he also is credted with inventing the "flange effect".
What in your mind (as a self-admitted thief) did Les Paulk "steal"?
As for your backpedal on percentages: In a similar way that you cannot play like Satriani just because you saw G3, your lack of understanding for percentages does not invalidate that they are mathematical fact.
A whole person is a whole person, for sure. So, please explain how you cannot say that 54.3% of the population in a city of 100,000 is male when there are 54,300 males in that city.
Guess what? the .3% does not mean that ONE person is 1/3 male. It means an additional 300 of those 100,000 people are male beyond the flat 54%. SIMPLE math. 5th grade stuff. Really.
And don't try to state that using rounded figures and approximations is a bad thing. It's been common practice for far longer than either of us has been alive and works just fine to convey meaning when exact figures are not needed, not for "dumbing down the masses" (an ironic phrase when you though it was impossible to have more than 99% but less than 100% of a group of humans).
For another example: "the company lost 95% of its assets" tells you plenty, unless you were expecting a list of each asset they lost and the breakdown value of those assets (after depreciation, of course). If that's how you think data should be shared in the news or elsewhere, then you may want to stop with sharing your feelings as if they are facts. No more "hospitals are lying about COVID deaths". Start providing facts and examples. name the hospital. name the patient. Show a death certificate.
Don't just regurgitate some crap you heard on a right-wing podcast that was not even backed up by THAT talking head. Walk the walk. Give what you expect to receive.
You know this (I hope) but are trying and failing to backpedal out of your stated confusion that whole percentages MUST be used when describing a group that is comprised of human beings.
Your assumption was incorrect. It was proved to you. Give up that battle. You lost it.
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