Combining percentages

Total, not sum

I said look, I'll give you that those names don't match. But what I think is gonna help a ton is the picture on the ID. Something that I've always loved that they did. And I think with 70% of that name matching and 100% face. It's 170%. I think I'll get through.

Nate Bargatze, The Tennessee Kid (2019)

Sure it's a comedy special and we know that's not how you combine percentages. But let's work it out.

Nate is simply summing the two percentages together. Instead, we should find the sum of their values and then divide by the total.

The chart shows the two percent choices and the resulting match percentages. The dots are the choices for percent name/face, and the ticks show the percentage matches. The difference between the percentage match values is highlighted.

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2025-06-17