A share above 100%

share-over-hundredon by defaultJapanese / English

A share of a group over 100%, such as "120% of respondents"

Example

Flagged

In the survey, 120% of respondents said they were satisfied.

What chaff prints

1:16 "120%" is a share of respondents, so it cannot pass 100%

Fixed

In the survey, 12.0% of respondents said they were satisfied.

What chaff prints

no finding

How to fix

Check the source figure and correct it. If growth or a comparison was meant, say so ("120% of last year's level", "up 20%").

Why it matters

A share of a group, such as "120% of respondents", cannot pass 100%. It is a misplaced decimal point (12.0%), a mix-up with another figure (growth on last year), or a mistyped digit, and the reader stops trusting the number. A part never exceeds the whole, so a machine can tell.

What it does not flag

Only percentages written as a share of a group in the share-whole word list (respondents, employees, users and so on) are read. Growth and comparisons ("120% of last year", "110% of the budget") and percentages with no group ("120% attainment") are not reported. Code is not read.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)

Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)

npx chaffjs relax share-over-hundred --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: share-over-hundred: off

Technical details

Layer: L3
Status: stable
Severity: error
Languages: Japanese and English
Suited to: business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

normal	error
relaxed	warning

This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.

By genre

Runs by default in: technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript

Genres

Message

"{written}" is a share of {whole}, so it cannot pass 100%

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/share-over-hundred.yaml