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It's almost like they knew it would just blow over. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

OK. Are both lines calculated with that same metric? If so it's still apples to apples.

~~The legend states what you have pointed out.~~ (no it doesn't I misremembered, my bad) BUT STILL, maybe an editor thought the headline was too long?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

If so it's still apples to apples.

At the same time, derivatives are known to be noise amplifiers. Second derivative even more so.

I fear the author wanted to talk about apples, the measurements didn't agree, so kept taking derivatives until the graph agreed with their bias. Why else talk about change in change of apples?

As always, misinformation has been spread, tweet succesfull ✅️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

You might be correct but you are clearly in an area of expertise that is beyond mine, so I'm going to let the other folks arguing about it argue about it. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It's not misinformation, nor is it the second derivative. It's just comparing to 2015.