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This is a great example of when to not use percentages in a headline. Or, you know, go for it! If you're trying to get clicks.
by ianamartin 10y ago
This is a great example of when to not use percentages in a headline. Or, you know, go for it! If you're trying to get clicks.
- ojm 10y agoDid the prices rise by 25% in GBP or not?
- ianamartin 10y agoDid the price of anything go up by 25% in GBP or not? In this case, 25% doesn't matter. It's literally not a big deal. It's 50 pence. There's another point to be made here that goes along the same lines as this horse-crap. It's this: shit it going to get weird when brexit happens. Well, we don't know that yet. It's probably true, but we don't know for a fact yet. But people post shit like this with bullshit click-bait titles, and then who knows what happens next? Why don't you just stop? Why don't you fuck off until you know something for real is going to happen?
- hellogoodbyeeee 10y agoCould you elaborate? I don't understand what is wrong with the headline being a fact.
- ianamartin 10y agoI will elaborate. Percentages are not good measures of small quantities. 25 percent of zero is still zero. It's not a meaningful number. If you're dealing with small amounts, use small amounts. This is junk.
- hellogoodbyeeee 10y agoThe problem is that apps in the app store have a variety of price points from $1 to $10 and they are all increasing 25%. Would you rather the title of the article be a table that maps the quantity of increase for each price point?
- ianamartin 10y agoYour range is off by 1. Quite a number of apps are actually cost zero dollars. This is a great use case for a thing called averages. The correct title for the article would be this: "Apps to increase in price by almost nothing following . . ."