• TheAlbatross
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      2 months ago

      “Per capita” means per thousand people

      Whoops I’m wrong it just means per person! I guess I’ve seen it so commonly used in the per thousand way

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          2 months ago

          Looking into it a bit, it seems like it’s just a fairly common misuse of the term.