• nyctre@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I know it’s a joke, but where did you get that number? If it’s at 3% in January and 4% in February. Either it’s a flat 1% increase/month or an increase of 33%. How else can it be interpreted?

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      9 months ago

      From the dephs of my ass. But basically it’s been around 2% for decades, then it went from 3 to 4% in a matter of months, so it’s accelerating exponentially very quickly!

      You can do funny things with statistics if you just use the wrong fitness function.

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      9 months ago

      How else can it be interpreted?

      Exponential increase that has been slow for decades, but is just now starting to ramp up?

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        9 months ago

        Sure, but the question was how they got to the number. If it was a random big number, then fine, that answers my question, but I was just wondering if there was a reason behind it. Usually when people make that joke they just purposefully misinterpret the trend which is why I went for the 1% or 33%