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> >"I thought people would know that 3 out of 100 is equal to 3% is equal to 0.03. But they are very different!" > Don't understand. Those numbers are all the
by tome 11y ago
> >"I thought people would know that 3 out of 100 is equal to 3% is equal to 0.03. But they are very different!"
> Don't understand. Those numbers are all the same by definition.
They are ways of representing that same number but people respond to them differently.
- nonbel 11y agoSo the numbers are not very different, just erroneously perceived to be different (according to psychologists). I guess it isn't as odd as I thought after skimming, but I still don't like it.
- golergka 11y agoNumbers are not different mathematically. Written representations of numbers are different psychologically.