What is it About That 85%? And How On Earth Did We Get Here?

Julia E Hubbel
ILLUMINATION-Curated
3 min readSep 17, 2022

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Truth revealed: the first truly accurate assessment of today’s Americans

Are we talking about exactly the same people very single time or is this just me?

Today here in Thailand I am spending my last day on the small island of Kho-Larn. Inside, thanks. Two days of paragliding, and the rest writing or dodging this godawful heat, not my favorite weather.

Still I’ve had superb fun, got caught up on writing, saw a movie or two, made a local pup very happy. Generally it’s been good. Any time I can get in air sports time I am a happy girl.

Then this afternoon, after finishing up yet another story, I read a piece on Medium by health writer Robert Roy Britt.

Britt’s about nine years my junior. I love his work, his honesty about his own health challenges, the quality of his science and his references. This is his article:

This line made me guffaw:

Among 9,700 people who self-reported what they eat and rated themselves on their diet’s quality, about 85% overrated its healthfulness.

I don’t doubt one bit that this is not only dead-on accurate, but if we were to extrapolate those numbers it would -betcha- play out over our entire population.

But that’s not what’s funny.

What’s funny is the 85%.

That’s the same percentage of people known to lie on their resumes. Nope? Yup:

It’s about the same percentage of us who blatantly lie on our online profiles. This article says 81%….

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Julia E Hubbel
ILLUMINATION-Curated

Not writing here any more. I may crosspost. You can peruse my writing on Substack at https://toooldforthis.substack.com/ .Also visit me at WalkaboutSaga.com