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There's a correlation. I used to study sociology and am very sceptical of numerical evidence and correlation claimed because of that. Most correlation claimed by people (esp on the internet and when it comes to gaming) is usually wishful thinking or hyperbolic to prove a point, but here it exists. To be brutally honest, the Company of Heroes community is not large enough to host enough different reasons as to why the viewers would go up several times after Lynx posted about it on Facebook. It happened consistently and it's saved statistics provided to those who run the SNF twitch channel. Now there could be different reasons, but those are few. The only ones that I can think of that would spike the viewership up that much is:
*A big amount of people getting to their computer, which would happen if this show was scheduled on a work day for example, it's not though. This would also be set to a specific time (as in, one hour in people usually came in to watch) but IIRC, Lynx did announce it at different times from week to week and the spikes were at different times, so that argument is dismissable.
*A stream ending, the most probable reason, but there are not many streams that have enough viewers to provide such a spike and for that to be a reason they had to quit every single time within a few minutes after Lynx announced it on twitter, which is incredibly improbable.
*RO going down. Same reasoning as for the stream, I doubt RO went down within minutes of the announcement being made consistently.
There can be no 100% truth taken in this. Within sociology though, a 95% chance of being right is enough for it to be used as evidence since there is always a margin of error. I would say this have a smaller than 5% chance of being wrongful. The amount of timing and luck required to attribute the spikes to something else is just so much that it's easily dismiss able as a extreme improbability.
So just drop that argument, please.
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