cm0002How couples meet in the US
This graph ending in 2020 is such a poor data set, you’re literally ending in an outlier
Can you explain what you mean? What makes you say 2020 is an outlier, or that it would be cleaner to omit data?
The time resolution / degree of smoothing in the chart is not really clear, but given the trend back to 2010, the 2020 data doesn’t seem implausible.
Not OP, but I’d guess because most people were working from home, unable to go to bars and gaming classes online out of a well founded fear of the spicy cough
So 2020 is literally an outlier because as another commenter pointed out it was illegal for people to meet in person in much of the world during 2020 and onwards through the pandemic. But that only lasted a few years, ending it there is almost dishonest (not attacking OP just whoever made the graph). It wouldn’t rebound all the way back up but this is showing something entirely unrelated to the core premise