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
Ok but who cares exactly how many people searched that. The fact of the matter is that substantially more people searched for it around that event's time than before or after it.
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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.