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[–] kipo@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

I wish stories like this wouldn't use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah,

1 + (1*5000%) = 51

Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah so if it was 100 queries per day before, its now 5100 per day. Or maybe we are both crazy.

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And those are real users too. They are intching closer and close to just being a bot hellscape.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So true... When I see 100% more, I interpret it as 2x. But somewhere around, idk, maybe 300% I interpret "300% more" as 3x. I know that's technically not correct, but it's just where my brain goes. I think a good deal of people just throw around "n% more" and "n% as often" interchangeably without much thought.

Luckily, the bigger the number the less of a difference between the two which is aligned with my brain using them the same.

(And obviously, if it's anything technical where it matters I would get clarification.)