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That might be but the odd coincidence of being precisely where you think the most important thing happened is probably a good reason to closely check this theor
by pvg 2y ago
That might be but the odd coincidence of being precisely where you think the most important thing happened is probably a good reason to closely check this theory against the usual laundry list of potential biases.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoYou can dismiss this as bias, however I'm a firsthand witness to it. The growth was true in every single university I emailed about the problem. Facebook's user growth was absolutely wild and unprecedented from 2007-2010. In fact, here's a graph showing an exponential curve. https://plusalphadigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/facebook-historical-user-count-graph.png https://plusalphadigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/face... 10% of overall web traffic: https://web.archive.org/web/20080919082104/http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/facebook.com https://web.archive.org/web/20080919082104/http://www.alexa....
- pvg 2y agoI'm not dismissing it, just saying that 'being a witness' can very much be a cornerstone of bias. The people working at maternity wards who notice more births at full moons are very much real witnesses to real events, for instance.