{"id":21631,"date":"2025-11-03T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=21631"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:06:56","slug":"exaggerating-how-many-people-ive-seen-say-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2025\/11\/03\/exaggerating-how-many-people-ive-seen-say-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Exaggerating how many people I\u2019ve seen say something"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been noticing my tendency to exaggerate the number of people who I\u2019ve seen say something online. Like, if I see three or four people say something online, I might post that I\u2019ve seen \u201ca bunch\u201d of people say it.<\/p>\r\n<p>I don\u2019t intentionally exaggerate those numbers; I think the phrases that I use accurately reflect my <em>feelings<\/em> about how many instances I\u2019ve seen. For example, I might get mildly irritated when I see one remark that I disagree with on a particular subject, and then each subsequent one that I encounter makes me more irritated, and so by the time I see (say) five different people refer to something, it feels like a huge number. But despite how it feels, the phrases that I tend to use often don\u2019t accurately reflect the numbers.<\/p>\r\n<p>So here are some half-joking approximate translations from the phrases that I use to the numbers underlying them:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>\u201ceveryone is talking about\u201d: I\u2019ve seen at least ten people mention it.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cthat thing that\u2019s going around\u201d: I\u2019ve seen at least five people repost this.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201ca bunch of people are saying\u201d: About four.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cmultiple times in the past week\u201d: About three.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cI\u2019ve now seen two or three people say\u201d: Two.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21632,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions\/21632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}