History Main / TwentyPercentMoreAwesome

* In the novel ''Cranford'', the narrator Mary Smith describes Miss Brown, an [[IllGirl Ill Woman]] as coarse-looking and plain. She's about forty. Her sister Jessie is said to be ten years younger and twenty shades prettier.

* IQ is frequently misunderstood by people who believe it to be an absolute measure of intelligence; rather, it is a statistical measure. 100 IQ is the average intelligence of whatever baseline population is used to construct the baseline for the test. Someone with an IQ of 115 is not 15% more intelligent than someone with an IQ of 100, but rather is 1 standard deviation more intelligent than someone with an IQ of 100 - thus they're more intelligent than 84.1% of the population. This doesn't mean that they're 34.1% more intelligent than the average person is, either. Due to the way that IQ tests are created, IQs more than four standard deviations beyond the average (below 40 or above 160) cannot be accurately measured because there is simply insufficient data to accurately chart the relative intelligence of people out there - thus someone with an IQ measured as being 175 may not be one standard deviation more intelligent than someone with a measured IQ of 160. Thus IQ is a relative rather than an absolute measure, and going from 100 to 110 IQ may not represent the same change in absolute intelligence as going from 110 to 120 IQ.

* ''Film/{{Bedazzled 2000}}'' (2000): "Ah... well, you know, you go out there and you give a 110%, and you wanna play good, and, you know, you hope you play good... I think we played pretty good tonight!"

* In the ''Literature/MurderSheWrote'' episode "The Mole", when seemingly-benevolent philanthopist Max Hagan is shown snapping unreasonably at his staff behind closed doors, one example is him insisting a press release needs to be "warmer, by 25 degrees."

* In the ''Literature/MurderSheWrote'' episode "The Mole", when seemingly-benevolent philanthopist Max Hagan is shown snapping unreasonably at his staff behind closed doors, one example is him insisting a press release needs to be "warmer, by 25 degrees."

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Sun and Moon'' episode where Professors Kukui and Burnet get married, Ash's Rotom tries to calculate the odds that they will be happily married. Burnet tells it that's not something that can be quantified.

* The Music/KenAshcorp song "20 Percent Cooler" which includes references to all of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Mane Six"]] and a shout-out to [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]].

Ah, statistics... The ally of mathematics, business and hard science. [[LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics How infallible]]. There seems to be a problem here though... What instrument can you use to measure "awesome", for example? How do you calculate a 14% drop in sadness? And then there are the ''units'', often measured using an AbstractScale -- how many millisobs do you need to get one kilocry?[[note]]Assuming there are one thousand sobs in a cry, it would be one billion times--"kilo" refers by definition to "thousands of" and "milli" refers by definition to "thousandths of."[[/note]]

* In Creator/DouglasCoupland's ''Series/JPod'', Ethan declares: "I've come to the conclusion that documents are thirty-four percent more boring when presented in the Courier font."

* The "Winger" and "milliWinger", terms coined by the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom during its earlier days (but which have fallen out of use by now) as a way of quantifying {{Squick}}. According to [[TheWikiRule WikiFur]], "One Winger is equal to the amount of mental disturbance caused by viewing a typical [[{{Yiff}} Doug]] [[{{Hermaphrodite}} Winger]] [[GagPenis drawing]]."

** [[LargeHam Princess Luna]] is taught what the concept of "fun" is[[note]]she's a FishOutOfTemporalWater and has quite literally never heard the English word "fun" before[[/note]]. After the second game, she expresses her approval with: "HAHA! THE FUN HAS BEEN DOUBLED!", another phrase that also [[MemeticMutation took no time to go memetic.]]

** As recounted by the book ''Literature/SickLittleMonkeys'', Creator/JohnKricfalusi's directing style is very "I'll know it when I see it," as he clearly has a difficult time articulating exactly what he wants from artists and actors. For the most part, the artists took it as a personal challenge, assuming that anything they created that didn't result in enraged frustration or outright punishment ''must'' have impressed him, but it was also emotionally taxing and contributed to the show's sluggish production. Creator/BillyWest had a less positive opinion on this directing style, remembering a particularly grueling session in which he nearly blew his voice out because Kricfalusi's only direction was "You're 98% there."

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'''s first arc involves Index's friends trying to remove her memory because according to the Church of Necessary Evil, 85% of her memory is taken up by the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a collection of forbidden Magical Grimories memorised with her photographic memory skills. This leaves 15% of her memory for her daily life, and makes it necessary for the memory to be removed in order for her to survive (the Grimories cannot be deleted). [[spoiler:This is actually subverted, as the memory limit is proved to be wrong by Touma, who [[LampshadeHanging gets suspicious on how the Church gets values like 85% and 15%]], and learns that the brain has a huge capacity for memory even if the person has photographic memory. Index's friends then realise that they are being used by the Church to protect the secrets of the forbidden Grimories by limiting her contact with the world via deleting her memory.]]

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', L occasionally gives statistics about how right he is. The [[AllThereInTheManual official guide]] claims that he makes these up to sound more credible, although in the anime he also does it in his internal monologue when there's no one to impress. Another WordofGod claimed that whenever he mentions a statistic at all, he's ''always'' 99% sure. So all that "5%" or "47%" or whatever meant he was almost totally sure every time.

** Andrew boasts that he's become "82% more manly" since he saw Spike last.

* Subverted with Cyborg in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Only Human". Since Cyborg is, well, a cyborg, the machine part of him can measure how much effort he is actually putting in. Part of the episode was Cyborg lamenting that he ''cannot'' give 110%.

-->-- '''Rainbow Dash''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited for Success]]"

->''"Just make the whole thing, you know, cooler. ''(beat)'' It needs to be about 20% cooler."''
-->-- '''Rainbow Dash''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

* The Music/KenAshcorp song "20 Percent Cooler" which includes references to all of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Mane 6"]] and a shout out to [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]].

* A banner ad for some kind of game project: "[[Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja DrMcNinja's]] Radical Adventures. Now 20% more radical." Possibly a StealthPun, since there is a character in the comic called "King Radical." Maybe he just shows up 20% more times.

* [[http://www.popehat.com/ Popehat]], a blog primarily concerned with the legal aspects of First Amendment issues, devoted its [[http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/27/june-28-2012-history-in-the-making/ June 28th, 2012]] column to the [[=KHAN=]], defined as "the amount of internet rage, channeled through email, listservs, and websites, on the day of Bill Clinton's impeachment acquittal". Larger units in the measurement system are the [=GENGHISKHAN=] (exactly One Godzillion [=KHANs=], first measured on December 12, 2000, the day the US Supreme Court ruled that George Bush had won re-election) and the [=CHAKAKHAN=], One Mecha Godzillion [=KHANs=] of internet rage..
* Doctor Insano of ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' built a literal Gaydar; it measures stereotypical gayness. He refuses to say why.

'''Entire Team:''' (''in monotonous unison'') We are all very good players.\\

'''Entire Team:''' (''in monotonous unison'') We will beat Shelbyville.\\

'''Entire Team:''' (''in monotonous unison'') That's impossible. No one can give more than 100%; by definition, that is the most one can give.

(''Hayley gives a seductive smile'')\\

(''Hayley's smile brightens and her eyes widen in excitement'')\\

(''Hayley mutes her excited expression slightly'')\\

** According to a love letter sent by a secret admirer to Ms Krabappel, "A million poets could try for a million years and describe but three-eighths of your beauty.".

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "Not a Father's Day" (2008): "Lily, no part of Barney Stinson does anything less than 110%. If one my little Michael Phelpses got loose, he's swimming for gold."

* Ridcully declares the Unseen University football team will give it 110% in ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals''. It's left to the LiteralMinded Ponder Stibbons to explain that no, they won't, although their 100% may be greater than previously thought.

** ''Civ 6'''s Gathering Storm expansion added Diplomatic Favor, a quantified resource of your international diplomatic standing (which can traded and sold to other civs the same way you would a lump of iron). It also added Fiplomatic Grievances, a specific figure of how much a given pair of nations have antagonised each other.

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** ''Civ 6'''s Gathering Storm expansion added Diplomatic Favor, a quantified resource of your international diplomatic standing (which can traded and sold to other civs the same way you would a lump of iron).

* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'': As your empire progresses through time, you discover new technologies and civic developments. It's just about understandable how you can quantify an empire's science per turn (important discoveries and so on), but you also generate a quantified amount of ''culture'' per turn. This is then put towards developing civics, so developing International Trade requires around 20 Culture. These are even measured to one decimal place. ''Civ 6'''s Gathering Storm expansion also added Diplomatic Favor, a quantified resource of your international diplomatic standing (which can traded and sold to other civs the same way you would a lump of iron).