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Such a misleading title. > [...] AMD now has a market share of 31.3% (up from 28.5% in Q4 2021) versus Intel's 68.7% (down from 71.5%) That's not "grabbing ov

Such a misleading title. > [...] AMD now has a market share of 31.3% (up from 28.5% in Q4 2021) versus Intel's 68.7% (down from 71.5%) That's not "grabbing over 30%" in my book. It's grabbing 2.8%.

agnokapathetic 4y ago
28.5% -> 31.3% is a 9.8% increase in ~1 year.
- password11 4y ago
  https://xkcd.com/1102/ https://xkcd.com/1102/ We're always having this same rehashed argument over and over again on HN. "My [CPU manufacturer] grew by 100% this year." Market share is an absolute percentage, so you should talk about it using absolutes. It doesn't make sense to talk about relative increases unless we're talking only about AMD revenue without respect to the overall market.
- mypalmike 4y ago
  The result of subtraction of percentages as you have done is typically given units in "percentage points" or "basis points" (with a scalar offset) in order to avoid ambiguity. The "percent change" or "percent increase" is calculated as is typical with any numerical change, (x1 - x0) / x0. https://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage-points.html https://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage-points.html
  - hpen 4y ago
    I’m confused. Are you saying he straight up subtracted the larger number from the smaller?
    - mypalmike 4y ago
      Oh huh. I must not have been wearing my glasses. I thought that said 37.3. Which still is only 8.8 percentage points. But even doing the percentage difference, I calculate a 10.2 percent increase. So I'll just shut up and go face the corner with the parent poster.
- rwalle 4y ago
  You might want to revisit your elementary school math class material...
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dangus 4y ago
I don't think the word "Grabs" specifically implies a change (delta) instead of the overall state. The word isn't that specific, it's really a colloquialism. This seems like a perfectly understandable headline to me. "I grabbed four slices of pizza" "dangus grabs 50% of the pizza"
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Such a misleading title. > [...] AMD now has a market share of 31.3% (up from 28.5% in Q4 2021) versus Intel's 68.7% (down from 71.5%) That's not "grabbing over 30%" in my book. It's grabbing 2.8%.

agnokapathetic 4y ago

28.5% -> 31.3% is a 9.8% increase in ~1 year.

password11 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1102/ https://xkcd.com/1102/ We're always having this same rehashed argument over and over again on HN. "My [CPU manufacturer] grew by 100% this year." Market share is an absolute percentage, so you should talk about it using absolutes. It doesn't make sense to talk about relative increases unless we're talking only about AMD revenue without respect to the overall market.
mypalmike 4y ago
The result of subtraction of percentages as you have done is typically given units in "percentage points" or "basis points" (with a scalar offset) in order to avoid ambiguity. The "percent change" or "percent increase" is calculated as is typical with any numerical change, (x1 - x0) / x0. https://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage-points.html https://www.mathsisfun.com/percentage-points.html
- hpen 4y ago
  I’m confused. Are you saying he straight up subtracted the larger number from the smaller?
  - mypalmike 4y ago
    Oh huh. I must not have been wearing my glasses. I thought that said 37.3. Which still is only 8.8 percentage points. But even doing the percentage difference, I calculate a 10.2 percent increase. So I'll just shut up and go face the corner with the parent poster.
rwalle 4y ago
You might want to revisit your elementary school math class material...
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dangus 4y ago

I don't think the word "Grabs" specifically implies a change (delta) instead of the overall state. The word isn't that specific, it's really a colloquialism. This seems like a perfectly understandable headline to me. "I grabbed four slices of pizza" "dangus grabs 50% of the pizza"

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