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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture (www.cnbc.com)
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TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

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[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I hate how percentages from 100% and up are used ambiguously.

e.g. 150% vs +150%

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

I 200% agree with this.

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I interpret "up %150" as + %150

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

The vague part is:

say uninstalls are 1000 / day, so that's 100%

up 150% is 2500 / day, so 250% of nominal

or is it :)

[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This wouldn't be an issue if people learned the difference between "percentage" and "percentage points".

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You’re very right, though for me the abiguity comes from not being confident the person using the thing understands.

I think you already get this, but “Applications are 150% of normal” means you add 50% and “applications are up 150%” means you add 1.5x the original. There’s really no room for interpretation it’s just that errors happen anyway.