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Pragmatics of normal language usage prescribes that any explicitly supplied information will be relevant to the hearer. Assuming that "98%" is relevant, and no other useful information, it is rational to support a measure with such a high level of efficiency, and to support it more than one for which no efficiency figure is provided.