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Please read the thread. You missed the 2008 report (as did politifact). I linked to the 2008 report which does not show absolute service number breakdowns; only
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
Please read the thread. You missed the 2008 report (as did politifact). I linked to the 2008 report which does not show absolute service number breakdowns; only rounded (or, perhaps, truncated [in which case the YOY change could be significantly higher than 25%]) percentages from a total.
Why would PP deviate from their standard reporting practices?
- FireBeyond 11y agoI did read the thread. You quoted a report that showed '25% year over year'. With the numbers of this report, there would have to be a 100% increase in 2008 (that reverted back to "normal" levels in 2009) to average out to that level. Even rounding numbers would not account for the discrepancy between "2% more this year than last" and "25% more this year than last".
- jsprogrammer 11y agoIts not percent of a percent. It's percent of an absolute change. 1st derivative vs 2nd derivative. Edit: hmm, maybe I misunderstood your point. I don't think the politifact or qz YOY data from 2009 is based on 2008 (but rather, 2007 [technically not YOY then]). How would they have calculated the YOY without the absolute number for 2008?