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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Didn't we hit 3% in January this year? At this rate well reach 350% by EOY!

[–] nyctre 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I know it's a joke, but where did you get that number? If it's at 3% in January and 4% in February. Either it's a flat 1% increase/month or an increase of 33%. How else can it be interpreted?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How else can it be interpreted?

Exponential increase that has been slow for decades, but is just now starting to ramp up?

[–] nyctre 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sure, but the question was how they got to the number. If it was a random big number, then fine, that answers my question, but I was just wondering if there was a reason behind it. Usually when people make that joke they just purposefully misinterpret the trend which is why I went for the 1% or 33%

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From the dephs of my ass. But basically it's been around 2% for decades, then it went from 3 to 4% in a matter of months, so it's accelerating exponentially very quickly!

You can do funny things with statistics if you just use the wrong fitness function.

[–] jerrythegenius 4 points 9 months ago

From the depths of my ass

oh ok

[–] nyctre 1 points 9 months ago

Fitness function, nice. Will remember that. Ty :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You can download a csv of the market share from 2009, it shows it reached 3% for the first time in jun 2023, there might be some kind of rapid growth in popularity here.