Re: Stopping the boats

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

>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?

Results of elections are never reported in the terms you quote, except
by people trying to magnify the numbers. I don't know why you would
want to do that, except perhaps because you feel guilty about 4% not
being quite decisive enough, or maybe you feel guilty about the number
of gullible people who believed all the Leave lies.
-- 
Ben