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Re:When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (2014) by emodendroket on Friday December 30, 2016 @10:11AM (#13284694)
Yeah, but if one post every ten days really is predictive, then showing it at a larger scale isn't helpful.
Re:When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (2014) by mnarayan01 on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:04AM (#13284982)
Looking at the graph, it seems like we're talking about ~16.5 posts in the ten days before a relationship versions versus ~15.7 in the ten days after. In the context of an individual, Facebook might be able to combine this with a bunch of other data to make guesses about people entering relationships, but a quick look at the graph makes it look like they could do it from just this one piece of data.

FWIW, I think people are often too quick to dismiss graphs as misleading due to the y-scale and I do think the graph is interesting. That said, I think a lot depends on the context, and being directly below "When You [emphasis added] Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees" makes this seem misleading.