I’m sorry if this seems dumb. I tend to take things literally and “mutual” and “exclusive” seem to be antonyms but mutually exclusive is a term used a lot and it confuses the crap out of me. I’m a native English speaker also.
Does it mean that the two things CAN exist together? I feel like my brain does gymnastics trying to understand the term; I’m not a dumb person but this term just totally eludes me!
Please don’t attack me, just trying to not feel stupid.
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I had this confusion when i was studying financial planning. Two terms were used often. “Independent” and “mutually exclusive.” Naturally got the explanation that mutually exclusive means that if one thing is done, the other cannot happen.
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