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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

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  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    It’s really pretty simple - if something increases by 80%, you add 80% of whatever it already is… one dollar becomes $1.80… one percent becomes 1.8 percent.

    Most people don’t understand it because they’ve seen it done wrong so often, the wrong way seems right.

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      I’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.

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        https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

      • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
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        That’s about 60% more than expected

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          You mean 38 percent points higher ?

      • pixelscript@lemm.ee
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        Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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        I think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%

        • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Is that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/

          • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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            11%/10% with rice

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