The local Leo’s have released their crime statistics for 2016 and guess what? Crime is up. Not surprised. The report points out which crimes rose, like murder, rape and mayhem - up about 18%. What does that tell you?
Why do people use percentages? I hate percentages. They are meaningless unless you have numbers to put them into perspective. An 18% increase of 1000 is substantial, but 18% of 4 or 5 ain’t much. The media loves percentages.
Doctors love percentages. "If you do this or that you increase your chance of dying by 50%," they will tell you. In the first place, you have a 100% of dying. And, if you double your chances and whatever they are talking about is one in a million, then two in a million doesn’t mean much to me.
I have addressed this annoyance before.
There is a 100% chance, I will again.
PMO
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