• Ageroth@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Percentage is probably one of the easiest ways to calculate a difference but presenting a percentage change can be mildly misleading if you don’t know what the original numbers are.

    An increase of 100% is really a 2x increase, 1000% increase is an 11x increase.
    If there used to be 1 ICE raid a month and now there are 11, that’s a 1000% increase. Given the change in directive and ramp up in action I’d be somewhat surprised if it was only 1000%

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, that’s was what I was getting at, just worded much better. I feel like ice activity has increased way more than 1000% since Trump took office.