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Topic	How do you prefer to post statistics? Fractions, Decimals, Percentages...
adjl 01/22/25 9:23:30 AM #11:	Percentages are best for comparing statistics to each other (which is usually more important than just quoting a statistic in a vacuum), but when it's easy to round them to a nice fraction (anything with a denominator of 10 or less, we'll say, since nobody wants to be thinking about 17/20 or 19/33 or nonsense like that), fractions are better for communicating them to people because colloquial interpretation of percentage statistics usually involves rounding them to a convenient fraction and you save people that interpretive step if you do it. Fractions are also usually faster to say than the corresponding percentage. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:983763903] in How do you... [t:80921036]...</cite> <quote>Percentages are best for comparing statistics to each other (which is usually more important than just quoting a statistic in a vacuum), but when it's easy to round them to a nice fraction (anything with a denominator of 10 or less, we'll say, since nobody wants to be thinking about 17/20 or 19/33 or nonsense like that), fractions are better for communicating them to people because colloquial interpretation of percentage statistics usually involves rounding them to a convenient fraction and you save people that interpretive step if you do it. Fractions are also usually faster to say than the corresponding percentage. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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