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Day 24 / 30 · The headline arithmetic

Translate time into rate without changing the claim

Percent less time and percent more output use different denominators. Change the times to see why the percentages differ.

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Assumption for this arithmetic: comparable tasks and quality, with no additional bottleneck. This is not a prediction of real workplace throughput.

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For a research headline, also recover the task, participants, tools and period, comparison, and measured outcome. The studies in the article used different settings; their percentages are not interchangeable.