98% Isn't Much
The article discusses how 98% is not a satisfactory percentage for certain aspects of life, such as a restaurant's food safety record or a website's compatibility with browsers. It highlights that 98% can be misleading, as it can still result in a significant number of people being affected, and that truly robust engineering should prioritize handling edge cases. The article concludes that 98% is not enough to be considered widely supported, especially when it comes to basic expectations like website functionality or food safety.
- ▪A restaurant with a 98% food safety record can still get people sick on a monthly basis.
- ▪A website that works for 98% of the population can still exclude around 150 million people.
- ▪98% support for a feature does not necessarily mean it is suitable for a specific audience or use case.
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| Original publisher | Whynothugo |
| Canonical URL | https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:45:14 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-07T13:05:57.449Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-07T13:05:57.449Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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98% sounds like a lot. If someone wins the lottery 98% of the times they play, they are clearly blessed. Getting a top mark (e.g.: 10/10) on exams 98% of the time will likely lead to an honour diploma.But a restaurant where clients don’t get of food poisoning 98% of time is getting people sick on a monthly (or even weekly) basis. If an employer pays their employees 98% of the times, I definitely wouldn’t want to work there. If I pay before leaving a restaurant only 98% of the time, I’ll be in trouble.98% is great for exceptionally good things, like dramatically increasing someone’s quality of life, but very low for basic expectations, like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them.If a website uses fancy new browser features and works for 98% of the population, that means that it…
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