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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

It's really pretty simple - if something increases by 80%, you add 80% of whatever it already is... one dollar becomes $1.80... one percent becomes 1.8 percent.

Most people don't understand it because they've seen it done wrong so often, the wrong way seems right.

[-] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

I'm quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

That's about 60% more than expected

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

You mean 38 percent points higher ?

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

11%/10% with rice

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