Comment on Percentages

zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  10% of your people vote for a party.

  The votes increase by 10% => now 11%

  The votes increase by 200% => now 30%

  The votes increased by 50 percent points => now 60%

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• RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The annoying part is that there is no well-known notation for showing percentage points, so people use % for both percentages and percentage points.

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  • ziggurat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In deep rock galactic survival, the color of the number is different for percentage and percentage points

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    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We really should just have a different symbol tho. Maybe we do, I’m not a math wiz, but we certainly don’t have a broadly used one.

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      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d love to see percentage points as a symbol that’s literally “%” with dots in the circles

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  • Szyler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like how some games use “increases by +10%” as percentage points and “increases by 10%” as percentage.

    Or how oath of exile does it, with “(base + base * increases by y%) x z% more”

    So with a base of 5%, chance increased by 20%, and chance increased by 30%, with a 40% more chance, you’d get:

    (5% + 5% x (20% + 30%)) x (1+40%) = 7.5% x 1.4 = 10.5%

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly. Unfortunately, they aren’t used widely and consistently enough. Even in the press. So you frequently have to second guess what you’re reading.

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