• 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.