A colleague and I had a meeting (about 40 years ago) with one of the district management teams to review a number of things, including nurse staffing levels. She pointed out to them that they were 25% under agreed levels in a certain specialty.
After the meeting I pointed out to her how much more urgent the position would have sounded had she pointed out that they would need to increase existing levels by 33 1/3% to meet target.
"But that's manipulating raw data" she protested
"No it's not - just presenting it in the most effective manner."
There's a lot of it about
Mike