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Someone already gave the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030465 It's caused by people failing to
by lolinder 2y ago
Someone already gave the answer:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030465
It's caused by people failing to read the fine print on the graph.
- rahimnathwani 2y agoI had the same instinct as you, but this comment changed my mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030614
- lolinder 2y agoNah, I read that but I'm not convinced. The reply to them from palijer is correct: inaccurate does not mean lower, it just means inaccurate. Fewer samples means less data means more room for weird sampling errors skewing the data. There's nothing inherent in that that suggests we ought to assume an upward skew. The best we can say is that the sampling skew this month is different than the sampling skew in past Januaries. That could be due to some interesting cause, it could be totally random, and there's zero point in speculating about it until we have more data.