• uberstar@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 months ago

    Alternative view (directly from the source):

    IMO being off by around 10% or more is still quite the leap.

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        2 months ago

        Right, but any of those aren’t 10% off, but closer to at least 10 percentage points off – percent and percentage points are not the same thing.

        Even Australia is ~23% off, and eg. Germany is 42% off, the US is 120% off, UK is 57% off, and eg. Poland is a whopping 650% off

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          2 months ago

          People don’t give precise percentages though when surveyed. They might round to typical fractions like 1/4, 1/3, or they might round to 10 or 20 percent.

          Nobody is saying “hmm, I estimate that it would be approximately 37 percent”.

          Of course the wisdom of the crowd does wonders for smoothing those coarse estimates, but still, if the crowd is +/- 10 of the real percentage value, I’d say they’re pretty much on the money.

          Anyway, Poland, wtf.