Basically, if a percentage goes up 10 percentage points, it is just an addition. “His approval rating jumped 10 percentage points from 24% to 34%.” There are 10 percentage points between those numbers.
If a value increased by 10%, it went up by 10% of its previous value. “The price of eggs increased by 10% from $9.00 to $9.90” the original value gets multiplied by 1.1
They aren’t talking about percentages in the original tweet, so this doesn’t really apply, but I think this vagueness confuses people so I prefer to be more specific than just “up 10%”
Basically, if a percentage goes up 10 percentage points, it is just an addition. “His approval rating jumped 10 percentage points from 24% to 34%.” There are 10 percentage points between those numbers.
If a value increased by 10%, it went up by 10% of its previous value. “The price of eggs increased by 10% from $9.00 to $9.90” the original value gets multiplied by 1.1
They aren’t talking about percentages in the original tweet, so this doesn’t really apply, but I think this vagueness confuses people so I prefer to be more specific than just “up 10%”
Ooh got it