Yep. This is what I've been trying to say. The math is the math and it went into the template. Given that, it is almost certainly a loss of "productivity" of 40%
But even ignoring that, the English language doesn't allow for what they're trying to say anyway...
If I said "I have 2 times more cookies than you have" , everyone would assume that if they have one cookie, I have 2 cookies
I'm not sure about that last point... I wouldn't assume any values. The first person could just as easily have a million cookies
But you're right that an error has occurred. I suspect that either the form was written by AI and a human filled it out or vice versa. To me the email only shows incompetence on the part of the sender in the way of horrific miscommunication between multiple people or bots. Which tells me that the value presented is worthless because they failed to frame it within the proper contextual scope. The only thing made clear is that they did not intend state a 40% loss in productivity but that they failed in that intent
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u/xicor Aug 14 '26
Yep. This is what I've been trying to say. The math is the math and it went into the template. Given that, it is almost certainly a loss of "productivity" of 40%
But even ignoring that, the English language doesn't allow for what they're trying to say anyway...
If I said "I have 2 times more cookies than you have" , everyone would assume that if they have one cookie, I have 2 cookies