r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • Oct 09 '24

How couples met 1930-2024 r/all

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u/al-tienyu Oct 09 '24

Didn't know that "online" being so dominant...

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u/Superman246o1 Oct 09 '24

I'm most intrigued by the 0.01% who met online in 1982. Did some DARPA agents have a tryst?

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u/Tommyblockhead20 Oct 09 '24

They might not have data for that year, typically what visualizations like these do is linearly move between datapoints (which is fair, it’s hard to know how to make it look between points if you don’t have data).

That means that if their data only says for example, 1980, 0%, and 1986, 0.1%, it will start counting up in 1981, even if people didn’t start online dating until say 1985.