Journalists typically don't "get" percentages, so they just throw them around and hope it's correct. Other examples: "Crime rate drops with 8%!" ... compared

Journalists typically don't "get" percentages, so they just throw them around and hope it's correct. Other examples: "Crime rate drops with 8%!" ... compared to what and when? "Inflation now 2% higher" ... does that mean inflation went from 1% to 1.02% or to 3%? The mere notion that you can express change of a metric (expressed as percentage), as a percentage would probably destroy the average journalist's brain.