This wouldn’t be an issue if people learned the difference between “percentage” and “percentage points”.
Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hate how percentages from 100% and up are used ambiguously.
e.g. 150% vs +150%
mrslt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I interpret “up %150” as + %150
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The vague part is:
say uninstalls are 1000 / day, so that’s 100%
up 150% is 2500 / day, so 250% of nominal
or is it :)
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re very right, though for me the abiguity comes from not being confident the person using the thing understands.
I think you already get this, but “Applications are 150% of normal” means you add 50% and “applications are up 150%” means you add 1.5x the original. There’s really no room for interpretation it’s just that errors happen anyway.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I 200% agree with this.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 day ago
💯