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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Russian ruble (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Joker to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lost like 7 percent today (or percentage points, funnily about the same here).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Whoa do "percent" and "percentage points" actually refer to different things?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, "percentage points" is used to refer to a difference between two percentages.

For example, let's say some company previously held 25% of the market, but grew and is now holding 50% of the market. The company's market share actually doubled in size, which we could call an increase of 100%. Or, looking at it another way, because they grew from 25% to 50%, you can call it an increase of 25 percentage points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sounds like "percentage points" provides less information to the viewer, which explains the context I most often see it used.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. If you have a half full battery it's at 50% full.

If the charge goes up by 50% you get a 75% full battery.

If the charge goes up by 50 percentage points it goes up to 100%