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A comment on Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by trapper on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:19AM (#733745)
Listening to "statistics" from people who quote percentages is really dangerous.

Percentages are really, really, easy to lie with. And for people who only quote percentages, this is usually what they are trying to do. Spin.

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Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by GQB on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:52PM (#734794)
You need both. Percentages are better for showing movement (e.g. growth), while absolute numbers give context.
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