O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

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Only you could turn a lesson in numeracy into a polemic on the Brexit vote! So following your lead......

Percentage changes in percentages are a bit tricky to get your head round. lets try it in a way closer to home

In a hypothetical poll 52% voted in a particular way. if 10% more had voted this way, would the vote in favour of the decision have been

(a) 62% or (b) 57.2% or (c) still less than half ?

You or I might think (a). MA would think (b). Swale would think (c)

Sorry...I didn’t actually mean to do that. I was really talking about democracy...especially where single issue complexities are involved.
Does it ever work? I suspect not.

In answer to your question...I’d have thought 62% but then worried about agreeing with you and probably copied off MA...which is, coincidentally, what I did in my General Studies ‘A’ level. There were two 3hr papers...one was all ‘arty farty waffle’ which you’ll be unsurprised to know I excelled at. The other was science, maths and languages, which I was seriously bad at. Fortunately my mate, who’s surname was fortuitously directly before mine so he sat immediately in front of me, was the exact reverse and he put his papers where I could see his answers.
The outcome...I passed...he failed and an initial life lesson was learned. I became a teacher...he became an accountant.