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The broader problem is that expressing changes as percentages is often intrinsically ambiguous. I'm not sure that the way you're choosing to signal the differen
by gmac 9y ago
The broader problem is that expressing changes as percentages is often intrinsically ambiguous. I'm not sure that the way you're choosing to signal the difference is widely appreciated or understood.
- Shoothe 9y agoIt depends on what do you mean by "widely understood". People that deal with numbers know the difference, but other can just read Wikipedia, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point It may be similar to people not feeling the difference between causation and correlation.
- JorgeGT 9y agoIt is a common mistake, I remember that not so long ago my government (Spain) had to amend a law because the initial text incorrectly said % instead of percentage points.