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> They can be. They shouldn't be used this way because it lends itself to miscommunication. I think you are backwards from how other people regularly faced wit
by aidenn0 3y ago
> They can be. They shouldn't be used this way because it lends itself to miscommunication.
I think you are backwards from how other people regularly faced with this ambiguity have decided to communicate, given that e.g. finance created a separate term to talk about changes in percentages.
Using that terminology, the win chance has gone up by 160 basis points, which is an increase of 15% from its previous value.
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- fluoridation 3y agoI don't see how that's in contradiction with what I'm saying. Expressing a change in a percentage in a while new unit or terminology seems ideal, because someone who's never seen it before will not mistake it for some other thing they already know. It doesn't lend itself to confusion at all, unlike expressing the change also in percentage.
- aidenn0 3y agoAh, I took your point of view to mean that "Increased by X%" necessarily implied an increase of X percentage points, not that it was ambiguous.