Re: Stopping the boats

Ben Newsam <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

In what way is my statement not correct and factual?

£1.08p is 8% more that £1.00p
£0.52p is 8% more than £0.48p (within rounding error)

8% more people voted to leave than to stay, 
however much the remainder might hate that fact.

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