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minus-squarezea@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·21 days agoI’ve always wondered how to disambiguate multiplication and addition of percentages. I guess that’s what percentage points are for?
minus-squarelemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·21 days ago10% of your people vote for a party. The votes increase by 10% => now 11% The votes increase by 200% => now 30% The votes increased by 50 percent points => now 60%
minus-squareRiceMunk@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·21 days agoThe annoying part is that there is no well-known notation for showing percentage points, so people use % for both percentages and percentage points.
minus-squareziggurat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·21 days agoIn deep rock galactic survival, the color of the number is different for percentage and percentage points
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 days agoWe really should just have a different symbol tho. Maybe we do, I’m not a math wiz, but we certainly don’t have a broadly used one.
minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoI’d love to see percentage points as a symbol that’s literally “%” with dots in the circles
minus-squareSzyler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-221 days agoI like how some games use “increases by +10%” as percentage points and “increases by 10%” as percentage. Or how oath of exile does it, with “(base + base * increases by y%) * z% more” So with a base of 5%, chance increased by 20%, and chance increased by 30%, with a 40% more chance, you’d get: (5% + 5% x (20% + 30%)) x (1+40%) = 7.5% x 1.4 = 10.5%
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 days agoExactly. Unfortunately, they aren’t used widely and consistently enough. Even in the press. So you frequently have to second guess what you’re reading.
I’ve always wondered how to disambiguate multiplication and addition of percentages. I guess that’s what percentage points are for?
10% of your people vote for a party.
The votes increase by 10% => now 11%
The votes increase by 200% => now 30%
The votes increased by 50 percent points => now 60%
The annoying part is that there is no well-known notation for showing percentage points, so people use % for both percentages and percentage points.
In deep rock galactic survival, the color of the number is different for percentage and percentage points
We really should just have a different symbol tho. Maybe we do, I’m not a math wiz, but we certainly don’t have a broadly used one.
I’d love to see percentage points as a symbol that’s literally “%” with dots in the circles
I like how some games use “increases by +10%” as percentage points and “increases by 10%” as percentage.
Or how oath of exile does it, with “(base + base * increases by y%) * z% more”
So with a base of 5%, chance increased by 20%, and chance increased by 30%, with a 40% more chance, you’d get:
(5% + 5% x (20% + 30%)) x (1+40%) = 7.5% x 1.4 = 10.5%
Exactly. Unfortunately, they aren’t used widely and consistently enough. Even in the press. So you frequently have to second guess what you’re reading.