Quote Originally Posted by Dr. rydrum2112 View Post
Second- from an ethical/teacher of statistics/methodological perspective, I think your "graphs" are a big deceiving. If you add this & last years numbers to the LoonyBob original graph- you would get the proper perspective. At then end of 2008 posts were around 9k, and the months prior about 12k, if you added the 15k to that you will see a trend that looks like you have "bottomed out" and bounced back very slightly. Where as just showing us the graph of 11 and 12 looks like a huge increase.
I had this thought as well, but I didn't want to be focusing on '06 as that isn't the goal. No doubt compared to 05-06 we have a long ways to go, but that's a goal that's a few years out. Right now the goal is continued growth. But if you are a teacher stats I'd love to hear your analysis! Also I haven't taken statistics yet (it's actually a course I'm going to start this semester in just a few days! )