«Customs, juristic tradition, etc., have as much to do with determining the average rate of interest as competition itself, in so far as it exists not merely as an average, but rather as actual magnitude. (en.wikipedia.org)
It was only after I found my way here from a complaint by Meryl Dorey (anti-vaxer) that I read the actual research and found out the actual magnitude of the benefit. (skepticalob.com)
Economists talk about negative growth rates all the time, and it's universally assumed that growth rates can be positive or negative.1 Ideally, the actual magnitude and sign of the value should be specified by the value itself. (money.stackexchange.com)