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jbattle on Sept 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't build growth teams

The way it makes sense to me is to invert the number you are looking at.

95 & 99 are very 'close together'

But if you look at 5 & 1 - the first number is 5 times the second. Huge relative difference

around_here on Sept 14, 2019 [–]

Sure, but the deal is that at very small numbers, a massive change in % difference doesn’t translate in to a massive difference. It’s _entirely_ dependent on context. The raw stats are meaningless.

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