This is a great example of how to lie with statistics, or what someone can claim by applying just college-level statistics. Those trend lines are completely wor

This is a great example of how to lie with statistics, or what someone can claim by applying just college-level statistics. Those trend lines are completely worthless. See the trend lines for Futurama: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0149460 http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0149460 The difference between all the episodes make having a "trend" very doubtful. Especially season 5 is a wildly varying season where if you take one episode away the line would completely flip. Much the same can be said for The Next Generation http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455 http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455 where you have basically clouds where seemingly at random a line is drawn through it. Yes, I know there are statistical methods for determining trends, but without data on their accuracy they are pretty much worthless. And you really should use a threshold for those accuracies if you're presenting this kind of data to a very wide audience.