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by rapind 567 days ago
But % “decrease” is just as bad as percent “increase” that OP is railing against.

Whereas the inverse of 3x is (1/3)x and still far clearer (three times the size and one third the size).

Meanwhile 3x “smaller” is the inverse of 3x “bigger”, not 300% “increase”, which is mathematically different. The adjectives break our brains. Much easier to comprehend if we don’t use them, using “the size” instead.