[Math] What would a 300% decrease in something actually mean

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I was looking at a site search product and one of the testimonials was

300% drop in "no results" searches

What would this manifest as ?

All I can come up with is -2 "no results searches" for every one that did exist but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Or is this likely just a misuse of percentages to make the product look good ?

Best Answer

It's just a misuse of percentages. It could be unknowingly, or deliberately, as you just said.

A quantity can not decrease by more than 100% of itself.

By the way, you could have Googled it before asking on SE. Here's the first Google Search result that came up for me: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110122151445AApNB9I

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