Half As Likely / Four Times As Likely

[Volcano1985]

As one study reveals, women who have been educated are half as likely to undergo harmful cultural practices such as mutilation and four times as likely to protect their daughters from it.

What do half as likely and four times as likely mean in the sentence? Level of probability?

 

[Raymott]

That's right.

 

[teechar]

Yes, it refers to probability.
I take it to mean half as likely and four times as likely, respectively, as uneducated women would be.

 

[Rover_KE]

What is the source of your quote, Volcano?

 

[Volcano1985]

What is the source of your quote, Volcano?

It's not a quote, it's from a paragraph in a question book.

 

[emsr2d2]

Then please give us the name of the book and the author. Anything you post which has been taken from another publication is a "quote".

 

[Volcano1985]

I would like to; but it's just a pdf file and no name of author. Why so important?

 

[Rover_KE]

It's a rule of the forum.

Always give your sources and the URL where appropriate. Copyright applies to texts, pictures, etc and the site can be held responsible if people post things here that breach the laws. If we see complete texts being posted or other copyright infringements, we will remove the post.

 

[Volcano1985]

I don't see that this rule is practiced or reminded in the other topics.

 

[emsr2d2]

The reminder to quote the source and author comes up repeatedly.

 

[Tdol]

I don't see that this rule is practiced or reminded in the other topics.

It is as copyright laws are strictly pursued in the UK, which is where the site is hosted. We have fair use, which this thread comes under, but things should always be credited.

 

[Tarheel]

"As one study reveals, women who have been educated...."

That can't possibly be the exact quote. After all, everybody is educated in some way.

Perhaps:

Women who have been to school through the eighth grade....

Or:

Women who have been to school through high school....

Or:

Women who have been to college....

Also, the practice is called "female genital mutilation".