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why have they added 100% to all the percentage price increases? if something cost $100 and now costs $150 then the price increase was 50%, not 150%. grumble g
by andrewcooke 15y ago
why have they added 100% to all the percentage price increases? if something cost $100 and now costs $150 then the price increase was 50%, not 150%. grumble grumble.
- sliverstorm 15y agoLikely just some confusion on semantics. The price is indeed 150% of what it was, though it has not increased 150%
- archgoon 15y agoWhich means it might have been altered by an editor who thought they were fixing a stylistic error.
- bgentry 15y agoAnnoying mistake. Basic math is lost on so many people I guess.
- Lagged2Death 15y agoI don't know if they've updated their chart since your observation, but the math looks right to me at this writing. The WD10EARS drive (first row) was selling for $60, now sells for $140, and that is indeed an increase of 133%. The MP4 drive (last row) has risen from $50 to $100, and is noted as a 100% increase. I think the chart would be improved by showing both the old price and the new price, making it more obvious how they arrived (correctly or otherwise) at the percentages. This way, checking the math requires visiting Camelegg oneself.
- andrewcooke 15y agohuh. it looks like they fixed it. i didn't take a snapshot, but originally no value was under 100% and several were over 200%. and i checked the disk that was shown in the plot above. oh, and they actually say so in the table caption: This graph was updated after publishing to fix the percentages. (although it's the table that was fixed, not the graph...!)