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> 13 employee layoff at a 90 employee Let's rephrase that to 14% to sound more impactful
by davidweatherall 4y ago
> 13 employee layoff at a 90 employee
Let's rephrase that to 14% to sound more impactful
- sshine 4y agoHow about: Substack fires every 7th employee!
- pessimizer 4y agoSeptimated.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago> 14% to sound more impactful What makes you say that? I don't understand why the percentage figure would carry more weight. I look at 13/90 my brain says "roughly twenty percent", which is too much. Perhaps some people, equally innumerate as I, misjudge the other way. Either way, the facts remain the same. Do you think numbers expressed as percentages have a different psychological effect? Maybe they sound more authoritative or clever?
- codyjones 4y agoIt would carry more weight to someone who has never heard of Substack or doesn't know how big a company it is. They'd assume it was a large company because of who was reporting about it.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoAh yes, they're hiding the body count. Makes sense now.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoI know what substack is and I fell for it. 13 people losing their jobs isn’t national news and they know it.
- bojo 4y agoClearly whoever titled the article thought it would have more impact. There's a lot of juicy ambiguity behind 14%. A percentage of what? A layman isn't going to know that it's only a 90 person company. They do know that 14% layoffs at a big company is something to get up in arms about. Definitely psychological in my opinion.