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Cake day: October 7th, 2023

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  • You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.

    Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it’s 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.

    Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.

    EDIT:

    Also, that’s only a difference of 7%, so it’s not even that drastic.