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Thursday

80% Is Eighty Percent

No matter how you slice it 80% is eighty percent.  Eight out of ten is 80%.  I don't care how you look at it the answer will always be 80% no matter what kind of spin you put on it.

What if I had twenty one dollar bills.  I gave person A ten one dollar bills, and I gave person B eight one dollar bills.  I tell person B they have the same amount of money as Person A.  Do you think I can convince him he has ten dollars?

What if I sliced a pizza into ten slices, and I ate eight slices.  How much of the pizza did I eat.  I ate 80%.  If I ate 7 slices it would be 70%, and 9 slices would be 90%.  Could I convince you that if I ate 8 slices that really I ate all ten slices?

What if you had a car that regularly got 40 miles to the gallon.  I give you a car that gets 32 miles to the gallon, and tell you it is the same.  Would you believe me?

What am I trying to prove here?  I am trying to prove that 80% of something is not the same as 100%, but for some reason some people try to convince others it is.  Who are these other people?

I am talking about the bolstering in SWTOR.  I have raised the 80% of the stats question many times now, and I get told I am assuming things.  80% is eighty percent right?  How am I assuming anything?

I don't care what kind of spin you put on it, but it is still 80%.  No one being bolstered will have any chance against a player who isn't bolstered.  Of course a bolstered player can beat a total noob, but does that really count?  Not in my book.

Please if someone can show me mathematically where 80%=100% I would love to see it.  Until I see it there is no way that bolstering is going to work in SWTOR.