[HN Gopher] Learning to Negotiate Salaries to Transform Library ...
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       Learning to Negotiate Salaries to Transform Library Culture
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-01-30 06:15 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | sokoloff wrote:
       | Figure 1 hurt my head for its crimes against data digestion.
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       | It seems to be reporting on union membership by people and
       | providing those counts as percentages to 2 decimal places (or 1
       | "when we feel like it") when the figures seemingly _must_ be
       | integers.
        
         | onion2k wrote:
         | _It seems to be reporting on union membership by people and
         | proving those counts as percentages to 2 decimal places when
         | the figures (seemingly) must be integers_
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         | The slices in the pie chart are labelled as "<number of
         | reports>, <percentage>%". The comma is not a decimal point;
         | it's a separator. That definitely not clear enough though.
        
           | dhosek wrote:
           | But all it takes is realizing that two of the three
           | "percentages" in the table that are over 100% to realize that
           | interpreting those numbers as percentages with a comma as a
           | decimal point (which would be _very_ uncommon in an English-
           | language text and unheard of in an American English text)
           | cannot be the correct interpretation.
        
             | gabereiser wrote:
             | I also thought we were talking about 100,000%'s here. The
             | figure diagram is confusing to say the least.
        
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