Percentage Usage Debates
Discussions focus on the correct interpretation, calculation, and presentation of percentages versus absolute values or percentage points, often critiquing misleading uses in articles like '6300% increase' vs. relative changes.
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A percentage!? That doesn't even come close. Perhaps a multiple is more fitting.
do you recall percentages? like 10% higher or 5x higher?
I meant big in percentage, not in cash value
obviously percentage, not absolute amount.
Choose between “now 1.5%” or “50% increase”
that's not how percentages work
It's not absurd precision, it's just what happens when you multiply something by a percentage.
Others might read that as 600% change, not 1.5%.
Feels like the opposite to me. "6,300%" looks weird as we're expecting to see percentages used for numbers much smaller than that. "63 times more" would prompt a visceral reaction. "6,300%" at first looks like a typo.
Problem is it wouldn’t be 10% more, it’d be 100% more