Comment by jdlshore
19 hours ago
Bell curves are probability distributions. This is a time series, so it can’t be a bell curve. It just has the same shape.
19 hours ago
Bell curves are probability distributions. This is a time series, so it can’t be a bell curve. It just has the same shape.
Are you discarding the utility of Gaussian functions in analysis simply because the independent variable is time? A Gaussian curve can be used as a descriptive model without claiming that the observations themselves are a probability distribution
The fit does not prove causation, but it does show that the decline was already well described by a trend that began years before generative AI. If the claim is that 2023 created a separate structural break, it's different claim then the title describes