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It 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.wiki
by Shoothe 9y ago
It 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.