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In the example of editing wikipedia it mentions: "This imagined paradox is caused when the percentage is provided but not the ratio." We see this so many areas
by prpon 17y ago
In the example of editing wikipedia it mentions:
"This imagined paradox is caused when the percentage is provided but not the ratio."
We see this so many areas. China's GDP is growing 12% every year and the US has grown just 2% type of arguments.
I haven't been able to improve on my yearly salary raise of 300% in the last 15 years when I went from 5$/hr to 15$/hr
- waldrews 17y agoJust comparing percentages off different bases isn't quite what the paradox is getting at, but it's also a fine approach to representing data in misleading way. There's a great collection of such less technical tricks in the book _How to Lie with Statistics_ by Darrell Huff.