sthoenna-YvnXKLUTzOA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes):
> FWIW, I wondered how people would handle this. In two different
> companies that I've worked at, the policy has been that percentages in
> reports must always add up to 100% (at the cost of munging the actual
> data).
...because, after all, the appearance of correctness is more important
than the reality.
Sometimes my clients have asked why the percentages didn't add to
100%, but they always understood the explanation, particularly if I
brought up the example of 33.3% + 33.3% + 33.3%. I'm with Curtis on
this one: it's preferable to include a disclaimer that mentions
rounding than to tamper with the numbers.
> It seems that otherwise end users report it as a bug.
End users will report anything as a bug. "Your web site sucks because
it didn't work after I put jelly in my keyboard."
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