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Once again, wise words from OP. A common trait amongst politico's over here is to compare numbers against percentages to either minimise or maximise effect. It's just pr spin.

 

You mean "alternate facts" ?

 

LOL. News travels fast these days!

 

Alternative facts aren't facts at all, whereas using percentages vs. raw numbers to spin something is based in actual facts.

 

Percentages are no less accurate than absolute numbers, and absolute numbers are no less accurate than percentages as long as they are in context.
If sales of all cars increase by 40,000 in a year, that is a small increase.
If sales of plugin vehicles increase by 40,000 that is a very large increase.

The numbers don't tell the whole story, for that you need the rate of change.
A percentage gives you that.

Yes, they can be misused, but they don't deserve to be put in the same basket with "alternative facts".

 

When did hybrids hit 0.8% or 1% of the total market?

 

Looks like in their 6th full year they hit 1.4%.
Hybrid electric vehicles in the United States - Wikipedia

 

Once you try Tesla car if you are after extreme power or hybrid car and rent this thing for a week you will definitely go forward and rethink all you ever have learned about car's........
I was real Redneck about hybrid or all electric car's before but now i know what other people really enjoy in this car's i have gone completely to the hybrid and future full electric cars....
They are built better and and all of this propaganda about higher cost to keep with repair are nonsense..even most expensive part fo electric car big battery are nothing in what you save over life using hybrid/electric vs car

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nothing earth shaking until gas prices go up. i read that opec and russia are colluding to decrease production, so that should help.

 

I have solar panels ......maybe expensive investment..but if you combine with hybrid car .......cost to operate on electric is free

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best of both worlds if you can pull it off, but you would have free electricity without a plug in, so it doesn't really change anything, unless you can't sell excess back to the power company.

 

Not when they compare $ with %age increase or vice versa!

e.g. a precise figure for one item compared with a percentage of a smaller figure such that a small percentage of a large number compares unfairly with a larger percentage increase to a much small number.

 

Not quite sure what you mean.
However, I suspect that would fall under the "as long as they are in context" part.

 

OK. Let's say one group of high earners is to be getting a small percentage increase, but another group earning a basic minimum wage is getting $520/year extra.

This might not truly show that the high earners would in fact be getting an extra $5,200 per annum.

Hope that explains how mixing the two can skew the perception of the 'actual facts.'

 

That is a case of incomplete information, which always can be misleading.
As I said before, percentages, or numbers, or both, can be misleading. It is not that either numbers or percentages are inherently misleading. It is the context, or lack thereof.

Quite timely to this thread, I saw this today Hybrid market share peaked in 2013, down since then

I believe they did a very good job with the context, and you will be happy to hear both numbers and percentages are used

 

Deliberate misinformation was my point, however your link won't open on my tablet in UK. I'm sure it was wholely appropriate anyway. Cheers!

 

Hmmm, try typing "green car reports hybrid market" into a search engine.
Or, just go to the greencarreports.com. The article was posted yesterday.

 

It may be country-restricted for some reason too, RCO is in the UK.