>>29053891First off, I don't disagree with anything you're saying.
Viewers is a metric that can only be counted in whole numbers.
I'm being accused of justifying fractional viewers, which I didn't do.
The post that started this discussion implied that my graph included fractional viewers, "If you can see fractional viewers in the graph."
>If we simply look at the graph in pic rel.While yes it's true that the tick label on the left hand side under the y axis label for 'views' includes fractionals, e.g. 12.5, 17.5 and et cetera, the tick label isn't a data point and tick labels are only used to scale the information in a graph.
They do not necessarily relate to the plotted points at all.
If you look at the highlighted point in the graph (on the scatter line), you will see that it is a whole number, which is true of all the plot points in the scatter line.
The only other place in which we see fractionals in the graph besides the other axis' tick labels, is the trend line.
The purpose of the trend line though is not to plot the number of viewers (which are only measured in whole numbers) per stream, rather, it is the job of the trend line to show that a positive trend exists among a larger set of numbers for which a trend (positive or negative, or neutral) might be difficult to determine in human perception.
For posterity, the predicted change of the positive trend we see on the trend line (in this period) is roughly .350 from stream to stream.
