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You said that UK's salaries are 2/3 of the Germany ones, but this doesn't mean that the Germany ones are 1/3 more, they are 1/2 (or 50%) more. That's pretty far from 10-15%.


Oh sorry, then I didn't maths properly. I always forget about the asymmetry of fractions

EDIT: Please don't downvote me for admitting a mistake



No problem, it's a pretty common math/statistics trap that gets way more people than it should.




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