• Saleh@feddit.org
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    27 minutes ago

    Seriously people, stop falling for this statistical misrepresentation/misinformation nonsense. If the interest in a term peaked, does not mean that any significant number of people looked it up. I have compared the term with NBA and Cats to get two generic comparisions:

    The percentages in the lower part show how often the term was looked up relatively speaking. So NBA was usually looked for 30-40 times as much and cats was looked for 15-20 times as much.

    So compared to all searches, we are talking about maybe something in the range of one in a few hundred thousands to maybe on in a few thousand searches.

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    7 hours ago

    Whenever these hot trends show up, you’re only seeing when it hits peak popularity. You need a comparison to see how it is permeating society. Unsurprisingly, it appears very few people are searching for this compared to the general population.

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    Don’t be too Lemmy bubbled, we talk alot about it here for us to know it but I think it’s an advanced enough word for people with only a high school education not to know.

    I’m more impressed that people in the South tuned into the speech.

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    12 hours ago

    Its really obnoxious that Google doesn’t provide any units at all for the vertical axis

    I think someone said they used to

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      They provide one on the left (0, 25, 50, 75, 100)

      What those units mean I have no clue, but I’m guessing 100 means 100% and is the highest amount of views, which they then base the rest on (5% of the highest recorded views, etc)