“A reduction of 133% would be in negative territory, not possible when discussing search results.”
One of my pet peeves. We see it every day and always wonder how they got the figure.
Last Friday I drank 6 beers. Saturday I abstained and drank 100% fewer. Sunday I drank another 33% fewer and two beers materialized in my fridge.
Seems like that could be a real money-saver. I'll have to try it with wine!
The only way to arrive at such a figure is to subtract 2.97 from 6.91 leaving a figure of 3.94 which if DIVIDED by 2.97 results in a figure which would round off to 1.33. Of course it has no basis in mathematics and only serves to indicate the total ignorance of the writer. It is astounding still to me that we have reached the point that people who IMAGINE themselves to be educated and capable of instructing others use such totally absurd expressions as 133 percent less. I grew up one mile of red clay road from the nearest two lane blacktop in a poor county in South Carolina ten miles from the site of the first secession meeting and attended public schools. Had I come up with such an absurd example of calculating a percentage when I was twelve years old my teacher would have recommended that I be sent to a home for the mentally retarded. I say this in all seriousness yet I have actually had someone on FR try to justify to me the use of such insane expressions. I say unto you IDIOCRACY is an understated documentary.