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>Odds for 2 (1) below have increased (decreased) exponentially

Can someone help me parse this? Is it referring to #2 or #1 in the quoted tweet? Have the odds increased or decreased?


This is a common pattern in academic writing, which compresses two sentences into one, like so:

> In sunny (cloudy) weather, the sky looks blue (gray).

So the sentence above means that odds for scenario 2 have increased, while odds for scenario 1 have decreased.


Odds for option 2 have increased, odds for option 1 have decreased.


Increased for 2, decreased for 1.




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