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by throwawayReply 3059 days ago
~10% to ~20% is closer to 100% gain than 10% gain. From 1 in 10 to 2 in 10 people is a doubling of people!

This is why percentage is a bad measure when it can represent two things (percentage or percentage-points).

I like log-odds as a scale to use to represent adoption, going from negative infinity with no adoption through zero (at 50%) to positive infinity at full adoption, but with a typical range of -2 (~1%) to +2 (~99%) when using base e. (Although you can use any base).

By that scale it went from -0.95 to -0.65.