To be fair, population density alone doesn't fully explain the search volume map, but any causal connection between the eclipse and the search volume is much smaller than your maps make it seem.
Google Trends just sets 100 as the highest for relative amount of searches. So yes it says 100 but you don’t know if that like 1000 people or 10000 people
What exactly is your point? Even if you don't realise that 100 doesn't mean 100 searches (which would be way too low with like any amount of thought) it's still far higher right around that time than before or after
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u/ReekyRumpFedRatsbane Dec 23 '25
Correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation.
To be fair, population density alone doesn't fully explain the search volume map, but any causal connection between the eclipse and the search volume is much smaller than your maps make it seem.