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This is really a monumental societal change.

3rd spaces are nearly completely destroyed, and online seems to be the main option for ppl now.

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[–] dmention7@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Can you explain what you mean? What makes you say 2020 is an outlier, or that it would be cleaner to omit data?

The time resolution / degree of smoothing in the chart is not really clear, but given the trend back to 2000, the 2020 data doesn't seem implausible.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not OP, but I'd guess because most people were working from home, unable to go to bars and taking classes online out of a well founded fear of the spicy cough

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, yeah thats a fair point.

I interpreted them as saying that the data point from 2020 was literally an outlier from the rest of the dataset.

[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

So 2020 is literally an outlier because as another commenter pointed out it was illegal for people to meet in person in much of the world during 2020 and onwards through the pandemic. But that only lasted a few years, ending it there is almost dishonest (not attacking OP just whoever made the graph). It wouldn’t rebound all the way back up but this is showing something entirely unrelated to the core premise

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, there was sort of a massive world-halting pandemic in 2020, which forced many people into seclusion. In many areas, it wasn’t even legal to go to a social bar. So yeah, I’d call it a bit of an outlier.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah fair. I took you literally to mean the reported data from that year was a statistical outlier.