Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture

UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I 200% agree with this.

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  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    💯

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• mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This wouldn’t be an issue if people learned the difference between “percentage” and “percentage points”.

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• MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I interpret “up %150” as + %150

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  • 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 :)

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• 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.

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