• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    She said that there’s been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just “trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from… communities.”

    Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.

    • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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      14 hours ago

      I loathe and despise using percentages like this.

      500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.

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        12 hours ago

        Worse still it’s not even clear what is being discussed. It implied “violence” but that is a wide range from just pushing to serious shooting.

        % can also be misleading when a scale is arbitrary. A temperature increase measured in Fahrenheit will be a rather different % when converted to Kelvin.

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      12 hours ago

      someone on bsky did the match and found out that 700% increase is still only like 70 incidents (i forget who it was that posted it)