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> In terms of housing, the $1000 a month group only improved by 6% more than the $50 group. 6 percentage points more, not 6% more. Kind of a big difference. A
by enragedcacti 3y ago
> In terms of housing, the $1000 a month group only improved by 6% more than the $50 group.
6 percentage points more, not 6% more. Kind of a big difference. A 26% increase is 30% more than a 20% increase. Group B has a 75% increase in participants finding housing compared to the control group.
> That is to say, even if you just give people enough money every month to get an apartment with a roommate, only 6% will actually use it that way.
While that is statistically correct we don't know why it is only used that way 6% of the time. The greater increase in the lump sum group could indicate that the $1k/month group couldn't pay for application fees, deposits, or other upfront costs even if their supplemented income otherwise could sustain the monthly costs of housing.
- ProjectArcturis 3y ago>Kind of a big difference. A 26% increase is 30% more than a 20% increase Percentage point changes are the right measurement. If the treatment group rose by 1%, and the control group rose by 0.1%, would you be excited that the treatment group was 1000% higher improvement than control?
- enragedcacti 3y ago> Percentage point changes are the right measurement. I'm not really contesting what the right measure is, I'm pointing out how substantially different the two are and that its important to be clear which one you're using.