Comment on Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor
blindsight@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I posted this in another thread on this article:
The math is wrong.
You can’t apply exponential growth to the proportion of a total.
Growing from 1% to 2% (a 100% gain) is equally a reduction from 99% to 98%, a 1.01% drop.
Going from 99% to 100% (a 1.01% gain) is equally a reduction from 1% to 0%, an infinite drop.Simple exponential modeling is the wrong tool.
anon@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
You mean 1.01 times gain? As 1.01% mean 1.01/100 = 0.0101