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The article claims a 70% fuel efficiency increase, and another quoted part claims a 70% reduction in fuel use. Which is it?
by tailrecursion 16y ago
The article claims a 70% fuel efficiency increase, and another quoted part claims a 70% reduction in fuel use. Which is it?
- wlievens 16y agoJournalists typically don't "get" percentages, so they just throw them around and hope it's correct. Other examples: "Crime rate drops with 8%!" ... compared to what and when? "Inflation now 2% higher" ... does that mean inflation went from 1% to 1.02% or to 3%? The mere notion that you can express change of a metric (expressed as percentage), as a percentage would probably destroy the average journalist's brain.