Comment on 102%
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoWhat I say is that there is more than three variables. The three variables are already the result of addition if other variables rounded.
Comment on 102%
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoWhat I say is that there is more than three variables. The three variables are already the result of addition if other variables rounded.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
So there were other options you mean? Like 0.5% couldn’t read, 0.5% drew a picture of a gun instead of answering, etc?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 days ago
0.5% strongly approve, rounds up to 1%. 39.5% somewhat approve, rounds up to 40%. The proportion of people who, to varying degrees, approve is then listed as 41%, because otherwise people would see it as them saying 1+40=40.
People are going to say they don’t understand math either way, so they just need to pick a convention and stick to it.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Ok, fair enough, yet again you can’t divide the group into smaller groups and by rounding up ending up with a larger group. Percent means per 100. It can never end up being more than 100, except for Trump who is going to reduce medicine prices 1200%. I mean, Americans use weird measurements already, their education system is already fucked and getting worse, I can understand they fail at primary school level math. But this is a British news paper.