In / within or during ?

rubina89
Hi everyone!

Which sentence(s) do you think is / are possible?

"In 60% of calls, callers react aggressively."

"Within 60% of calls, callers react aggressively."

"During 60% of calls, callers react aggressively."


Thank you very much!

If I were to tag on a clause to make the meaning of your sentence

I know what you mean. It sounds really awkward. The problem here is that this sentence is for a scientific text and it is important that the content of the sentence is perfectly accurate...To make it more clear: The whole text is about certain types of calls to a helpline and their frequency of occurrence.

For example, I can't write "60% of callers" when I am referring to "60% of calls".

When we make reference about a certain percentage, that value is usually based on a population of some kind. i.e. Out of a 1000 people surveyed, 60 percent of ......

If we just say " 60% of calls ", it is very abstract concept because without a clear context, 60% of 100 apparently will have much less significance compared to 1000, especially when stati

Yeah, it is very abstract because I just posted one sentence out of context. I am afraid I cant explain the whole background of the text as it is very complex and I don't want to disclose too much information here...

I will try: the population in this case is a certain number of incoming calls to a specific phone number. The reader gets introduced to the population in detail. Further, the

Well, almost. I would use half of each sentence to form a more complete statement: Out of xy calls, 60% of the callers behave aggressively. That would make a tangible mathematical statement A = (60%) (x y).