Re: Stopping the boats

Sn!pe wrote, though the Organization header says "Sn!peCo World Wide
Wading Birds":

>Kerr-Mudd, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>[...]
>> > Exactly.  8% more people voted to leave than to stay, 
>> > however much the remainder might hate that fact.
>> > 
>> You've erroneously doubled the figure.
>[...]
>
>Not so, I stand by my figure.  Check your percentage arithmetic.

Well, let's deconstruct this a bit. The result of the referendum was
51.89% for Leave, 48.11% for Remain, which gives an official margin of
3.78%, ie less than 4%, and a figure that most would agree is correct.
What you have done is somewhat disingenuous, in that you have done a
further calculation and taken that 3.78 as a percentage of 48.11,
giving 7.85 that you have rounded up to 8. A percentage of a
percentage is not a valid way of interpreting the numbers.
-- 
Ben