Percentages
Percentages
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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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That's about 60% more than expected
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You mean 38 percent points higher ?
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Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
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I think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%
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Is that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/
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11%/10% with rice
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