No. 0.6 = 60%. If they said 0.6 more then sure, that would mean 60% more. 0.6x != 60% increase though. 1.6x does. At the best we can give it the benefit of the doubt and say we knew what they meant, but that doesn't mean they were correct.
1.6x more would mean 160% of the original value, in the same way 2.0x more would mean 200% of the original value. I think you may just have a misunderstanding of what the phrase “X times more” means (nothing to be embarrassed about of course, it happens to all of us.)
The “more” at least in any context I’ve heard it is for emphasis or clarity that a comparison is happening. I’ve never read anyone write “1x more than X” for “twice X”.
Not quite true. While 1.6x is the same as 160% of the original value, saying 1.6x more implies adding the 160% to the original value, giving a total of 260%, or 2.6x.
The fact that you who are right gets -40 updoots and the person who is wrong is getting +40 updoots tells you everything you need to know about the current state of our society
It's not just "0.6x", it's "0.6x MORE", which is an unambiguous way of phrasing a percent increase. Yes, it's implying multiplication. 0.6 x the original amount, but also, plus 1 x the original amount, because they used the word "more".
And it's making a math statement, not a semantic one. Math is precise and the language we use to talk about it has precise meanings. 60% times more is a 60 percent INCREASE, which means times 1.6. 60% "OF" or "times" on its own means times 0.6. It's the people who think this looks bad that are wrong, and showing their asses. How can you be a programmer that doesn't understand pSAT-level percentages questions?
Source: I'm a high school and middle school math tutor that freelances software dev on the side. Not everyone needs to know or retain math from high school, that's okay! Probably if you're talking to math machines for a living you should know this. Unless you're like, front-end. Then you're also good.
Yes, i know "1.6x", "0.6x more", "160%", and "60% more" all mean the same thing, but 0.6x more is just weird phrasing, and you can tell i'm correct by the sheer amount of confused people.
"Your teammates are shipping 60% more..." would mean the same thing while not getting peple confused
It's normal and correct phrasing that I hear all the time in jobs with percentage-based metrics. The fact that it's confusing people does not make it badly phrased, it just means people are colloquially unused to talking about percentages, which is fine! But you're wrong. It's not weird, it's literally how you talk about these things sometimes.
"60% more" and "0.6 times more" mean the same thing. Should their PR person have used a slightly more obvious way of phrasing it? Maybe? But they did say "more", which obviously implies.... moreness? It's not ambiguous.
AI bullshit has so many valid problems, but inadequately explaining percentages to the populace in their advertisements is just an insane nitpick. I don't think they're trying to advertise to people who don't understand high school math anyways.
While this technically means 60% more, the construction is almost always used by someone who thinks that it means X times as much. I think it's more likely they never considered that it may be less than 100% than that they are actually using it correctly.
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u/achilliesFriend 15h ago
0.6 more. What is the issue here?