The difference between "percent" and "percentage point" when talking about relative humidity

This is something that came up in another discussion and I thought it deserved it’s own topic. As community member @peter notes, “The difference between ‘percent’ and ‘percentage points’ crops up every time there is a discussion about changes in humidity.” And he offered this helpful discussion from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point .

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