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Sininenn t1_ir3v7tb wrote

It's not that people are hellbent on this being untrue

It's that the metric chosen here is not the best way to describe efficiency, or the volume of crops grown and harvested, unlike the data you linked.

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Mendicant__ t1_ir541ly wrote

People are definitely claiming it's just price increases/cash value and that production hasn't actually gone up.

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Sininenn t1_ir54mt2 wrote

Some people, myself included, are claiming that this data representation could also be explained using just that justification, and that therefore, it's not a good one.

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dtreth t1_ir72o1m wrote

It IS explained using that justification, you just are not knowledgable enough to understand it.

Interesting manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect here.

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