• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    That’s not what they said though

    They said

    … this situation isn’t necessarily anxiety

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        23 hours ago

        Ah this is a classic language misunderstanding. “Isn’t necessarily” means “possibly not [thing]” or “doesn’t have to be” or “may or may not be” but doesn’t have much bearing on probabilities.

        That’s how people usually use that term in English anyway.

        EDIT sorry didn’t mean to dogpile. I just saw that a couple other people already replied.

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        No? First means less-than-50% probability of thing, second means less-than-100% probability of thing

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        That’s simply not true. I agree that it seems to be social anxiety depicted but you misunderstand that phrase. That’s basically just saying it could be something else, nothing to do with likelihood.