"Homeowners use up to 10 times more chemical pesticides per acre on their lawns than farmers use on crops."
- Jamie Rappaport Clark, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [circa 2000]
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- Jamie Rappaport Clark, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [circa 2000]
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That statement says a lot less than it is designed to sound like it says. I mean, it's literally true if the most pesticide happy homeowner with a postage stamp sized lawn saturates it with pesticide at a per-acre use 10 times that is typical of farms
What you want is “on average” comparison, not “up to”, which is only useful for deception.