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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:21AM (#14139545)
Why would it extrapolate 25% lower values on all other years? If the 10th years are the actual data points, the computed trend line through only census years shouldn't be so radically different from the drawn markers.

In any case, the differences are small in this instance over the long run

The differences in those years are _huge_.

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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by coldtea on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:11PM (#14140008)
>If the 10th years are the actual data points, the computed trend line through only census years shouldn't be so radically different from the drawn markers.

Except if the trend line is based on the other data source, and the peaks on the census data.

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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by neaden on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:24PM (#14140136)
It just says deaths in the screenshot though, not death rate so it shouldn't be dependent on anything else.
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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by bigtimeidiot on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:55PM (#14141157)
>The differences in those years are _huge_.

They look similar to me. One has less granular data than the other. What exactly are you implying?

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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:38PM (#14143185)
>They look similar to me.

Do a quick calculation for me, please.

What percent of 2 million is 500 thousand? Because the errors are 500 thousand on 2-2.5 million. That's a huge amount of error.

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