I wish the average person paid more attention to politics.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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I wish I could pay as much attention to politics as the average person.
It must be so calm and quiet. Like floating in a fluffy purple cloud.
You know what they say...
Ignorance is bliss...
There's a purple fluffy cloud? Ooo! Where?
What's the context within the graph, though? It spiked up, but does it represent 50 searches total? 10,000,000?
you might want to take a look at this.
... values on the graph do not represent absolute search volume. Instead they are normalized, then indexed on a scale from 1-100
Instead they are normalized
Normalised to what? This doesn't help.
Each point on the graph is divided by the highest point, 100
There we go. So a spike could be 1 person, or millions of people.
The link blocks me from opening it? Anyhow, because it's normalized, that's why I'm asking. The 0 to 100 graph tells nothing other than right now being peak interest. There could have only been 20 searches for it, but because that was the most interest in the past month, it pegged to 100.