• @[email protected]
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    324 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.

  • @formergijoe
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    247 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.

    • @GreenKnight23
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      96 hours ago

      this is worse. you understand how this is even worse…right?

      • @[email protected]
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        137 minutes ago

        So it is bad if people do google oligarchy and it is worse if they dont?

        This is a binary criterion. If both possibilities are bad, then good or bad is not correlated with this criterion.

      • @lazyViking
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        43 hours ago

        People knowing what oligarchy is, so few people have to Google it, is worse? Why?

  • @taiyang
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    108 hours ago

    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.

  • @Sanctus
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    5113 hours ago

    The average populace let’s me down, every time.

  • Cris
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    2412 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

    • @[email protected]
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      68 hours ago

      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)

      • Victoria
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        66 hours ago

        This is exactly how the scaling works, and why it’s pretty useless without another search to compare it to

    • @motor_spirit
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      511 hours ago

      That’s just an ol’ wives tale man, no way

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    18 hours ago

    The states that didn’t know, and the states that don’t want to know or don’t care.