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How couples meet in the US (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/usa@midwest.social

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This is really a monumental societal change.

3rd spaces are nearly completely destroyed, and online seems to be the main option for ppl now.

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[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not OP, but I'd guess because most people were working from home, unable to go to bars and taking classes online out of a well founded fear of the spicy cough

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, yeah thats a fair point.

I interpreted them as saying that the data point from 2020 was literally an outlier from the rest of the dataset.

[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

So 2020 is literally an outlier because as another commenter pointed out it was illegal for people to meet in person in much of the world during 2020 and onwards through the pandemic. But that only lasted a few years, ending it there is almost dishonest (not attacking OP just whoever made the graph). It wouldn’t rebound all the way back up but this is showing something entirely unrelated to the core premise