najveći broj

15:12 Jan 29, 2016 

"the largest number of":
https://www.google.rs/search?q="largest number of" statistic...
in this context

12:12 Jan 29, 2016 

to the case of the "first past the post" voting system - when there are 3 or more candidates, the candidate with the highest number of votes is often not the one for who MOST people voted!

11:06 Jan 29, 2016 

It's not the same as "the biggest/greatest number" but... it's a solution :)
Have you seen this? (from a comment on the languagelog page)
The Semantics of most - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~timh/most/salt2008-paper.pdf

10:55 Jan 29, 2016 

"How about 'the highest percentage'?"

Oh yeah! Good point, well made! I suggest you propose this as an answer - this now seems blindingly obvious.

10:49 Jan 29, 2016 

How about 'the highest percentage'?

10:34 Jan 29, 2016 

Office for National Statistics (ONS) GOV.UK
the greatest number of
the biggest number of
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/news-release/more-disputes...

10:25 Jan 29, 2016 

But, for some reason I prefer "the biggest" to "the greatest number". And would use "most" instead of "the most". In any case, the dilemma only exists when it's a multiple choice question and the result is: 40% of organisations know their data, 30% not sure, 20% don't care, 10% didn't answer. So, in this particular case, where they either know or do not know how much they spend on it, I suppose the things are clear (those that know are also the majority)
PS
Or not! :)

10:13 Jan 29, 2016 

I saw these terms in stats contexts...

10:11 Jan 29, 2016 

OK, wait, I've got this, "The GREATEST NUMBER of teachers (48%) delivering xxx forms of teaching are paid separately for this" - I think that might work over "most".

10:08 Jan 29, 2016 

Sorry, it's all percentages, but obviously based on a raw number.

I don't know, "THE MOST teachers (48%) delivering XXX forms of teaching are in the category of those who are paid separately for this" - sounds horribly clumsy...

10:04 Jan 29, 2016 

Here is another example, hope it helps with clarity: "Najveći broj nastavnika (48%) koji realizuju XXX oblike nastave su za to posebno plaćeni". Vesna I see what you are saying - I am not really happy with using "most" to mean anything other than a "comfortable majority", I think it would be misleading to use it any other way (e.g. to refer to a plurality) but I really never thought about it, so maybe I should consider that rather simple and elegant solution!

See this discussion: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2510. Perhaps "THE most" is what we really mean here...

10:01 Jan 29, 2016 

I agree with Vesna - most seems like the best option here.

09:59 Jan 29, 2016 

I thought he was looking for a clarification in terms of statistics?

09:55 Jan 29, 2016 

Translating it gave me a headache or two though... But...
MOST - the biggest number of... http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/most

09:48 Jan 29, 2016 

just based on that one sentence, it doesn't provide super clarity to me (I can see you are looking for nuances in the meaning)

09:47 Jan 29, 2016 

NB: in this case what they are referring to is obviously "the most populous category was comprised of those who did not know how much they spent".