[Anonymous]

Didn’t see any mention of it here, but just saw that pass rates for Q3 2014 were posted if anyone was curious.

Link for the lazy:

https://www.aicpa.org/becomeacpa/cpaexam/psychometricsandscoring/passingrates/pages/default.aspx

[jeff]

(3-2)/2 = 50%

3 is 50% more than 2.

[Anonymous]

I guess you could say that 3 is 150% of 2, and the excess of 3 over 2 (1) is 50% of 2 (lol, dunno if that makes sense).

Ahhh, I don't know why I became an accountant when I hate math.

[juuustin]

I think aisforaaron should take a breather on the sidelines for a bit… 🙂

MD Candidate: 10/1/14

FAR - 87 (11/23/14)
REG - 87 (1/30/15)
BEC - 89 (4/19/15)
AUD - 98 (5/30/15)

Ethics - 100

Experience - In Progress!

[Anonymous]

@ juuustin: No, I'm good. This quote from my previous post explains mine and someone else's confusion: “Edit: The confusion comes from comparing the difference between the two (10.49) and the percentage difference between the two (22.13%). I see how we were confused originally.” And your post implies there was some hostility in the first place to need to take a breather. Just simply read/understood it wrong in the beginning.

[Anonymous]

You could say “a 22% difference” or a “difference of 10 percentage points.” The former, ‘percentage difference between percentages' method is correct, but it is the kind of statistical spinning technique used by talking heads generally trying to mislead.

e.g., “Unemployment rate dropped 5% this year” (when it went from 10% to 9.5%)

[jeff]

Can't a guy just have an attention-gathering headline? 🙂

[Anonymous]

@Jeff – I think your attention-gathering worked!

[Author]

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