When your teacher asks you to provide more
statistical evidence (examples) in your essay, it does not mean you need to include an exact number. In fact, in some cases, it's impossible.
Imagine you're writing an essay about overpopulation and want to mention the number of people in the world. You wouldn’t write
8,125,098,111, right? By the time you finished typing that, at least five children would have been born in India, and some poor, lonely guy in Bulgaria might have taken his last sip of coffee (meaning he died).
So, what do we do instead? We use general estimates, like "
over 8 billion people", which is perfectly acceptable.
In yesterday’s essay, I did the same thing. I mentioned that
around 5 billion people own a smartphone (which is true—Google it if you want to), and I said that
billions of images are shared online every day (also true—Google again if you have too much free time).
Using such estimates shows that you're a high-IQ student with strong general knowledge—far better than the guy who can’t even remember his dad’s birthday. So yes, including general numbers is a great strategy, and it’s easy to do—because no one expects you to provide exact figures.
And let me repeat again, such numbers DO help the quality of your essay because:
✅ They make ideas concrete (e.g. smartphone accessibility, photo-sharing scale).
✅ They add credibility (real data instead of vague claims).
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