• Hegar@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    It’s the same reason that an increase from a 0.0001% chance of something happening to a 0.0002% chance is now double the chance of the thing happening.

    More relevantly, 0.0003477% is ~ 15% bigger a number than 0.0003000%. The overall numbers are still low, but the increase is significant.

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      3 months ago

      Well then i guess i am wrong, cuz i have to concede 15% is a significant difference. Thanks for explaining that. It still feels like artificial inflation of stats to my mind, but that’s just like, my opinion, man

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          I remember reading over some logic - statistics “puzzles”, where the logic is sound if you follow step by step on paper, but for some reason your mind just has trouble grasping the concept which leads to confusion.