Buy a second bed

Nothing. Just a metric shit-ton of nothing.

Something like that. Also the Victorian coast

Sure, because your analogy isn’t equivalent to the original issue.

Can you tell how many peanuts are in the jar by counting how many times you take a peanut out of the jar, dust it off and then put it back?

Doesn’t have to be linear. But if edits go up as content goes up and edits go down as content goes UP (I don’t think it’s defensible to say that Wikipedia shrank), then there isn’t a meaningful correlation.

So if edits go up, then content must have gone up, but if edits goes down, then content … goes up?

I think your logic is off. If there was a direct correlation that would mean that Wikipedia shrinks during the second half of the year and shrank overall between ‘07 and ‘10

Not if you believe that your point of view is the only correct one.

It doesn’t even show that it increased in size over time. The metric shown is the number of edits, not the number of new pages.

It’s been a shitty day to end a shitty year. Sorry about the snarkiness. Merry Christmas.

You took something that’s uncommon and completely disregarded it.

Sometimes. You should hang out with some kids with FASD or serious development disorders.

The argument from the freakonomics guy is that in around 96 the generation who were born once abortion was legalised started to become adults. At that time you had a huge reduction in the number of kids being born into situations where they were unwanted/ couldn’t be cared for/ or there were drugs etc involved. With that reduction came a matching reduction in the number of people growing up to be disfunctiknal adults.

Or something like that.

You would prefer it, but one of the features of disruptive technologies is that initially they won’t beat the existing tech in every metric. Over time they might, but that’s not the point.

Fossil fuels are pretty efficient now because we’ve had hundreds of years to perfect their extraction and build up their scale. If we were still reliant on people mining coal with picks and shovels and drilling for oil with tiny little drill rigs on land then that labour efficiency would tank.

There’s a hell of a lot more people than there are police, so it’s reasonable