The majority of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is discarded fishing gear.

[u/lnfinity]

[u/swinging_ship]

46% of plastics in the pacific garbage patch are from fishing gear. That is the majority and that is a problem.

[u/_Apatosaurus_ → u/swinging_ship]

46%

That is the majority

Please explain

Edit: Majority almost always refers to an absolute majority of >50%. If OP means a plurality or relative majority, they should specify that. Not doing so is intentionally misleading.

[u/Smittywerbenjagerman → u/_Apatosaurus_]

Things can be majority with less than 50% of the total if there are more than 2 categories.

[u/_Apatosaurus_ → u/Smittywerbenjagerman]

Majority means more than half. If there are more than two categories, and it's the largest, I believe the correct terms would be plurality or relative majority.

[u/Its_Nitsua → u/_Apatosaurus_]

No it doesn’t.

Majority means ‘the greater number’.