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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by yellowapple on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:48PM (#23106665)
If the original claim was "100% of the dev team is in China", and the reality is "only 80% of the dev team is in China", then that'd be a 20% factual error, mathematically speaking.
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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by simongr3dal on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:18PM (#23107756)
Or would it be a 25% error, i think it would make most sense to calculate the error-difference in relation to the actual value instead of in relation to the erroneous value.
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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by yellowapple on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:27PM (#23107890)
Good point.
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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by wutwutwutwut on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:40AM (#23111728)
Haha. Do you also calculate levenshtein distance from true to false and say false isn't entirely false but a bit of true? And is it almost factually correct to say that 10 equals 8?
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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by yellowapple on Sunday May 10, 2020 @05:57PM (#23136644)
> And is it almost factually correct to say that 10 equals 8?

I mean, from a certain point of view, why not? If you're thinking in terms of 1, they're wildly different. If you're thinking in terms of 1,000,000,000,000, they might as well both equal 0.

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