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Revision as of 20:01, 25 November 2012

Decline
'There is also a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where--'  'You want to stop talking right now.'
Title text: 'There is also a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where--' 'You want to stop talking right now.'

Explanation

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Following the flow of the comic, the reader is led to think that Cueball is angry at his wife about their relationship, accentuated by the "relationship graph." Subsequently, the wife says that the decline is actually due to Cueball's out-of-control fascination with graphing, to which he responds (unwittingly?) with "correlation does not mean causation".

Fourier transformations were mentioned previously in xkcd.

Transcript

[A man is pointing at a line graph at a specific point where it slopes down. The Y Axis shows that as Y increases, Love increases.]
Man: "Our relationship entered its decline at this point."
Woman[Outside of panel]: "That's when you started graphing everything."
Man: "Coincidence!"


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Discussion

"Wife"? 76.106.251.87 00:33, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Indeed, plus the notion that Cueball had begun graphing everything at a particular point while prior data had been graphed suggests that he only began presenting this data to Megan at that point, and had been secretly, perhaps obsessively, keeping data well before in their relationship. Thokling (talk) 09:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Megan does say "graphing everything" not "keeping data": it is possible that Cueball had been even openly collecting data prior to graphing it, or that his graphing of things just increased significantly at that point. L-Space Traveler (talk) 00:12, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

isn't it a bit speculative to add this to "comics featuring megan"? I'd "be bold" and remove it from there but I don't know how to. 198.41.230.33 01:06, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

as a gen z dude i have no clue, but the 1 month thing could also be periods? maybe link the uterus-hertz comic? 172.69.62.244 21:06, 24 July 2021 (UTC)Bumpf


Megan can definitely do better anyways; I don't see a label on the x-axis. Magicalus (talk) 04:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)