Communication playground

Make the story click.

Small challenges. Useful feedback. Your own words.

A small story to try

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See it: The headline says follow-up requests doubled. What would you tell a friend?

Invented practice records: 100 requests in each week.
Batch	Follow-ups	Total
Last week	4	100
This week	8	100

See a suggested explanation

4 of 100 requests needed follow-up last week; 8 of 100 did this week. That is 4 more.

That makes the size of the change visible. Doubling and 4 extra requests can both describe it.

Explain it: What else would help your friend understand the story?

The counts describe what changed. They do not establish why.
Batch	Follow-ups	Total
Last week	4	100
This week	8	100

See a suggested explanation

We know the count increased. We would need more information to explain why.

You kept the useful fact and its limit together. We can ask about request types and recording rules next.

Use it: New story: follow-ups went from 2 of 10 requests to 4 of 40. Did the share double too?

Invented batches. Their totals differ; each panel represents its own total.
Batch	Follow-ups	Total
Earlier batch	2	10
Later batch	4	40

See a suggested explanation

The count doubled, but the share fell from 20% to 10%.

Exactly: more follow-ups, but a smaller share of a larger batch. Keeping the totals visible changes the explanation.

A friend has only seen ‘follow-ups doubled.’ How would you explain the first story in two friendly sentences?