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Ok, so second question. When it says a "150% drop" that means....? I feel dumb now because, word is bond, I understand percentages a bit. I'm just always confused. I'm trying to start small, but honestly it's when they start throwing stats like "crime is down 23% and school fundraisers are up 13%" I just go, "well that sounds good" but I feel like I'm just smiling and nodding like everyone else.
Edit the "down more than 100%" is whats throwing me. Not a good example.
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The key word to focus on, is "from" or "of", which may not even be said, but just implied by the phrase.
Nothing can drop more than 100%, because that would make it zero, but, if you had one burglary in May, and 12 in June, you can have a 1200% increase (from the prior month). Now, taking those 12 burglaries, the following month it drops by 50%, you have 6 burglaries.
The percentages don't add up, so if you said "ok it went up 1200% then it went down 100% the next month, so it would be back to zero, but if you thought that because it went up 1200% and only went down 100%, it should still be 1100% more, but it's not.
First I would like to thank you for not treating me like I'm special, and helping. So if it went from 1 to 12 that's 1200% increases, then a 100% drop would mean we went back to one, not 0? Because the increase was 11, and 100% decrease would be that 11 more from last month?
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[–] OfficerRando [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Ok, so second question. When it says a "150% drop" that means....? I feel dumb now because, word is bond, I understand percentages a bit. I'm just always confused. I'm trying to start small, but honestly it's when they start throwing stats like "crime is down 23% and school fundraisers are up 13%" I just go, "well that sounds good" but I feel like I'm just smiling and nodding like everyone else.
Edit the "down more than 100%" is whats throwing me. Not a good example.
[–] 1425908? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
The key word to focus on, is "from" or "of", which may not even be said, but just implied by the phrase.
Nothing can drop more than 100%, because that would make it zero, but, if you had one burglary in May, and 12 in June, you can have a 1200% increase (from the prior month). Now, taking those 12 burglaries, the following month it drops by 50%, you have 6 burglaries.
The percentages don't add up, so if you said "ok it went up 1200% then it went down 100% the next month, so it would be back to zero, but if you thought that because it went up 1200% and only went down 100%, it should still be 1100% more, but it's not.
Does this make it any clearer?
[–] amio 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Uh.. that depends. It could be a negative. If you have 10 bucks and lose 200%, you're 10 bucks in debt.
[–] OfficerRando [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
First I would like to thank you for not treating me like I'm special, and helping. So if it went from 1 to 12 that's 1200% increases, then a 100% drop would mean we went back to one, not 0? Because the increase was 11, and 100% decrease would be that 11 more from last month?