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Can we talk about the definition of a “surge”, please!

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What percentage increase do you feel is required for surge to be a reasonable definition. A 35% increase feels surge-y me.

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The council planted a new tree on my road, trees surged in population from 1 to 2 yesterday

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12 points

100% surge is legit

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That’s why we’re talking about relative percentages.

In your example we would need to know how many trees existed on your road/city before. If there were less than 3 or 4 trees in your city before this, saying there was a surge is likely fine.

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Given the sheer amount of Steam users, it’s still not a bad increase.

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9 points

Sergei?

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sir gay?

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It’s not just a percentage thing. 1 person yesterday to 2 people today is a 100% increase. Not much of a surge, at least in terms of news worthiness. Going from 6% to 10% sounds more news worthy than going from 1% to 2% despite the latter being a much larger percentage increase.

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Considering the many millions of steam accounts. A 1% increase is nothing to sniff at.

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Of course, percentage just help show relativity. It’s why people can look at a 0.5% increase and dismiss it as not significant.

Would it help if I translated the percentage for you? Linux surged 600000 to 2.3 million.

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It’s not the percentage total but the speed of increase.

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Small number random samples in big data sets have huge error margins. You need to smooth this over time to see the real trend.

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A delicious canned energy drink from the 90s.

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3 points

Josta was better.

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Click bait media

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