Re:The Death of Software Development (in North America at le...
by mechanical_fish on Thursday June 05, 2008 @09:18AM
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On the original page, commenter Kim has a hypothesis:
Essentially, all results from Google Trends are normalized.... More and more non-technical people are using google and thus the percentage of searches for programming declines.
Sounds reasonable to me. These graphs don't even have units on the Y axis. They're useless without some idea of what they're measuring: absolute or relative numbers?
Somebody needs to read How to Lie With Statistics.
Essentially, all results from Google Trends are normalized.... More and more non-technical people are using google and thus the percentage of searches for programming declines.
Sounds reasonable to me. These graphs don't even have units on the Y axis. They're useless without some idea of what they're measuring: absolute or relative numbers?
Somebody needs to read How to Lie With Statistics.