how can you not care about the meaning of the quote but also say that he's lying about the meaning? this is literally the conversion we're having, isn't it? "what does the quote mean?" is a precondition to "is a given representation of the quote honest or a lie?".
the reason I asked about the first line is because the last line is a continuation of it. I'm not brining up a tangent.
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Are you saying you don't understand any of the words because you don't care about them, and you assume I can't understand any of the words because I don't care much about them?
I'm still not following your train of thought here
"you would expect to see..." - this is about the percentage of adult male deaths you would expect to see in a given age range.
"It's 72% in that age range" is the actual percentage seen in that age range.
that's how I understand the quote, mechanically.
in that understanding, Todd isn't lying. he may be wrong and horrible about everything else, and if you want to call him out on those I won't even have a comment. but in my reading of that quote and his reference to it, your accusation that he's lying about it is a cheap and incorrect shot and it doesn't inspire onlookers to take you seriously.
that is the extent of my position here so don't take this as an endorsement of anything.