Comment on Percentages
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s really pretty simple - if something increases by 80%, you add 80% of whatever it already is… one dollar becomes $1.80… one percent becomes 1.8 percent.
Most people don’t understand it because they’ve seen it done wrong so often, the wrong way seems right.
blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
www.snopes.com/…/third-pound-burger-fractions/
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s about 60% more than expected
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You mean 38 percent points higher ?
pixelscript@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 months ago
I think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Is that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 months ago
11%/10% with rice