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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7140435" data-attributes="member: 6683613">&quot;Only 2 points&quot; is only 2 points when you're working with, say, a hundred-point scale. But if you're dealing with numbers mostly between 1 and 12 or so, as you are with damage rolls, then there's nothing &quot;only&quot; about a 2-point difference. A 2-point difference is negligible in basketball but daunting in hockey. Barely perceptible on the Celsius scale but catastrophic on the Richter scale.Because of this problem of scale, expressing the gap as a percentage is honestly the best way to communicate its magnitude. It simply provides clearer context. Yes, you can lie with statistics through the abuse of percentages. But you can also lie with statistics by using unit values and relying on people's intuitions that 1 and 2 are &quot;small&quot; numbers to convince them that the difference is also &quot;small&quot;. And that, I am afraid, is what you are consciously or subconsciously doing here. &quot;You say the earthquake is a hundred times stronger, but that's only 2 points on the Richter scale! Nothing to worry about!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 7140435, member: 6683613"] "Only 2 points" is only 2 points when you're working with, say, a hundred-point scale. But if you're dealing with numbers mostly between 1 and 12 or so, as you are with damage rolls, then there's nothing "only" about a 2-point difference. A 2-point difference is negligible in basketball but daunting in hockey. Barely perceptible on the Celsius scale but catastrophic on the Richter scale. Because of this problem of scale, expressing the gap as a percentage is honestly the best way to communicate its magnitude. It simply provides clearer context. Yes, you [I]can[/I] lie with statistics through the abuse of percentages. But you can also lie with statistics by using unit values and relying on people's intuitions that 1 and 2 are "small" numbers to convince them that the difference is also "small". And that, I am afraid, is what you are consciously or subconsciously doing here. "You say the earthquake is a hundred times stronger, but that's only 2 points on the Richter scale! Nothing to worry about!" [/QUOTE]

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