Originally Posted by
SeattleDavid
And statistics are confusing territory anyway. Being in the top 5% of unique AA passengers requires a time-bounded measurement for uniqueness (over 12 months I guess) and therefore it does not put you anywhere near the top 5% on any particular flight, or even on any given day (though per day is going to be much closer to 5% than per flight).
it’s a fairly standard demonstration of making the statistics fit whatever point the user (in this case, AA) is trying to make IMO
necessarily vague on the finer detail to make it harder to debunk