Showing posts with label Percentage Points. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Percentage Points. Show all posts

Friday, 14 November 2008

Idiot Journalists

Can someone please tell all journalists everywhere that a percentage point is a different thing to a percentage. for example when describing cuts in interest rates a cut from 5% to 4% is not a 1 per cent cut it is a a cut of one percentage point. This may seem picky but this annoys the crap out of me.