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fansy
 
Reply Sun 5 Sep, 2010 11:25 pm
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While those stocks recovered much of their losses for the day, they are both down significantly for the year.


Can you describe the concept of "significantly" by using a 1-100 scale?
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contrex
 
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Reply Mon 6 Sep, 2010 12:20 am
@fansy,
fansy wrote:

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While those stocks recovered much of their losses for the day, they are both down significantly for the year.


Can you describe the concept of "significantly" by using a 1-100 scale?


Not necessarily. That is why the word "significantly" was used.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 6 Sep, 2010 05:39 am

Good answer. But if I had to put a figure on it, talking about stocks, I'd say more than 10%.
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engineer
 
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Reply Mon 6 Sep, 2010 06:15 am
@fansy,
Early on when my wife and I were dating, as a joke we defined a significant change as 3%. Anything less than that wasn't worth mentioning. In your case, it depends on how much something regularly changes. In this case, if stocks routinely move up and down 5%, then 5% is not significant. 10% is probably a good number in this case. If you are talking about the birth rate in a country where the number is usually pretty stable, then a 3% move would be very significant.
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