I have upon more than one occasion mentioned how much I dislike percentages taken out of context. The media loves to spout out numbers that are intended to shock the audience. "If you do so and so you will have a 50% higher chance of dying of something." They never mention that the chances are 1 in a million and the higher chance is 1.5 in a million. And, they use the same approach to mislead you in the other direction. "Participation is now up 50%." No mention of the participation was only 100 before.
Let me illustrate on a personal level. I manage an email bulletin board for our little commune. We have just over 600 subscribers that look to see who has what to sell or what meeting is coming up. We also post lost dogs and cats and the occasional weather alert, from our resident NASA weather man.
On Christmas day, I posted the Christmas Guest poem that was posted here. Now, let me say that I don’t do this job for thanks, but I had hoped that we might receive some comments about how they liked it. To my surprise, comments doubled over anything done in the past. How about that? A 100% increase.
Out of 600 plus sent, we got two comments.
It’s the best we’ve ever had.
PMO
©2017
1 comment:
Well, check. You are up to three now, except i am not a member of your commune. Thank the Lord.
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