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> The CNN switchers were also, as Bloomberg’s Matthew Yglesias reported, 10 points less likely to believe that Joe Biden supporters were happy when police offic
by karmakaze 5y ago
> The CNN switchers were also, as Bloomberg’s Matthew Yglesias reported, 10 points less likely to believe that Joe Biden supporters were happy when police officers get shot, and 11 points less likely to believe that it is “more important for the President to focus on violent protests than the coronavirus pandemic”.
> In addition the CNN viewers were 13 points less likely than the Fox News viewers to agree that: “If Joe Biden is elected President, we’ll see many more police get shot by Black Lives Matter activists.”
I don't regularly read political stories nor the Guardian. What do they mean by 'points' here? Are they percentage points (and what are their absolute values) or something else? Basically how significant are these quantities?
- cochne 5y agoFrom Wikipedia on "Percentage Point" > A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages. For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points, but a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured.[1] In literature, the unit is usually either written out,[2] or abbreviated as pp or p.p. to avoid ambiguity. After the first occurrence, some writers abbreviate by using just "point" or "points".
- karmakaze 5y agoThanks for identifying that 'point' means percentage point. But we still have 10 points can mean anything from 11% to 1% or 90% to 80% which still leaves out needed information to infer the significance.