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Re:Show your costs to boost sales by bachmeier on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:08AM (#26981355)
> I find using decimals places (like 16.1% and 21.1%) in human experiments pretty irritating. It feels like false precision.

Whether you say 21.1%, 21%, or 20%, you still have a single number. You could make an argument that decimal places like 21.147258% add clutter, but without an actual measure of uncertainty, all you're doing is reporting a summary of the data in the sample with different amounts of arbitrary rounding. That's not particularly helpful as a substitute for the full distribution.

Re:Show your costs to boost sales by yuliyp on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:34AM (#26982492)
It's not just a number. It's a string of characters conveying information about a measured value. The way it's specified conveys information about the number of significant figures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures).
Re:Show your costs to boost sales by phreeza on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:03PM (#26985994)
Significant figures are not a universal standard, they are an imperfect way to in-band information about confidence, by sacrificing precision.
Re:Show your costs to boost sales by shoto_io on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:56AM (#26981974)
21.1% is implying a different confidence interval than 21%. At least to me.
Re:Show your costs to boost sales by ceh123 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @11:59AM (#26982850)
Yup, 21% and 21.0% do implicitly convey different information even though they’re the same number.