That’s a huge increase.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The increase is not 1 and 1.5 percent but 1 and 1.5 percentage points

    tbh i don’t really see the point in mentioning this.

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      1 year ago

      Because original is incorrect. For the first increase 0.5% to 1.5% is an increase of 200% while the increase in percentage points is 1. The reason it’s important is that it can skew the readability of the statistics to a degree where the numbers at best are confusing and at worst are misleading. In your case you accidentally understated the significance of the increase.