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You're making a critical logical mistake - assuming a data anomaly when you don't know anything about the field, but you take a 5-second check with your own int
by ahoyhere 16y ago
You're making a critical logical mistake - assuming a data anomaly when you don't know anything about the field, but you take a 5-second check with your own intuition, and can't find an explanation.
You've never heard "Thursday's the new Friday"? College kids and young employeds party hearty on Thursdays now. It started in the early 2000's.
Uncle Google shows that even the NYT knows about it: http://www.google.com/search?q=thursdays%20the%20new%20friday http://www.google.com/search?q=thursdays%20the%20new%20frida...
Remember: just because you can't figure out the reason intuitively, and immediately, doesn't mean there isn't one.
- gaius 16y agoThis started in the City as far back as the 80s - everyone wanted to leave work early on Friday and go away for the weekend with their partners/families/whatever. So Thursday was the night for getting drunk with your cow-orkers. Casual Fridays comes from this time too.
- dhimes 16y agoThey also introduced more flexible schedules. Some folks opted to take Fridays off; some could only get away with every second Friday (folks in the US Fed gov't, for example). It just occurred to me that there are probably reading this who have no idea what it was like when your schedule was entirely set by your employer with no wiggle room. Yikes!
- starkfist 16y agoAlso in NYC, Friday and Saturday nights are when restaurants are clogged with tourists, so locals try to avoid going out on those nights.
- philjr 16y agoGenuinely not sure about that, but considering how this analysis was done, it's equally likely, that Thursday is the day that people would start talking about a restaurant ... i.e. looking for recommendations for the weekend or talking about going to a particular restaurant.
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