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[–] Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So it was cut by 10 dollars?

Kennedy said, "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-rfk-jr-s-claim-theres-more-than-one-way-to-calculate-a-percentage-decrease

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a different way

Well, it's just plainly wrong and shows obvious lack of understanding how percentages work

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We prefer to call them alternative understandings

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Alternative facts

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh gosh. Oh gosh, no. You can't reverse percentage like that 😂🫣 The secondhand shame!

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's not even right, that would only make it 60 dollars.

10 * 600% = 60

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Even worse 😄

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

So the wrong way.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Using that Terrance Howard math