stumu415@lemmy.zip to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 8 days agoNo, they haven'tlemmy.zipexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down14
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minus-squareRacoonwithbenefits@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up23·7 days agoSo it was cut by 10 dollars? Kennedy said, “President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-rfk-jr-s-claim-theres-more-than-one-way-to-calculate-a-percentage-decrease
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·7 days ago a different way Well, it’s just plainly wrong and shows obvious lack of understanding how percentages work
minus-squaredellish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 days agoWe prefer to call them alternative understandings
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 days agoOh gosh. Oh gosh, no. You can’t reverse percentage like that 😂🫣 The secondhand shame!
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoit’s not even right, that would only make it 60 dollars. 10 * 600% = 60
So it was cut by 10 dollars?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-rfk-jr-s-claim-theres-more-than-one-way-to-calculate-a-percentage-decrease
Well, it’s just plainly wrong and shows obvious lack of understanding how percentages work
We prefer to call them alternative understandings
Alternative facts
Oh gosh. Oh gosh, no. You can’t reverse percentage like that 😂🫣 The secondhand shame!
it’s not even right, that would only make it 60 dollars.
10 * 600% = 60
Even worse 😄
Using that Terrance Howard math
So the wrong way.