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It's a 33% increase, or an increase of 1.07 percentage points. It's not a 1.07% increase.

• MBCook 11y ago
  Yeah that seems to be the core of it. Without the percentage sign what they wrote seems technically valid but very likely to be misunderstood.
  • 9fb29947 11y ago
    It's an increase.
• simoncion 11y ago
  Hmm. As old as the concept of percentages is, you'd think that there would be a good symbol to indicate an increase in percentage points.
  • dragonwriter 11y ago
    > As old as the concept of percentages is, you'd think that there would be a good symbol to indicate an increase in percentage points. Uh, there is such a notation -- (sign)(# of percentage points change)pp. Or, in the instant case, +1.07pp. (Though it would probably be more ideal if %p were accepted instead of pp, because then there would be a natural extention to ‰p, etc.)
    • simoncion 11y ago
      I rather like %p. What would ‰p mean? Percent-degree-points?
      • dragonwriter 11y ago
        "Per-milleage" [0] points (same relation to per-mille as percentage points are to percent; 1 percentage point = 10 per-milleage points = 100 basis points.) [0] I have no idea if there is a standard term for this, and if there is, that's probably not it.
      • eru 11y ago
        Promille points.